Head of a Maori person, with moko (tattoo) markings. Photograph.

Date:
1929
Reference:
645971i
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Description

Head is detached. Head purchased by Henry S. Wellcome from Horatio Robley in December 1909; subsequently displayed in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London. Another photograph of the same head: see catalogue record no. 645969i

Publication/Creation

1929.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 15.1 x 11 cm

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/2/35

Lettering

Typed label on verso: Tattooed head, native. W.H.M.M. 1929.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 645971i

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