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

Date:
[1952?]
Reference:
645972i
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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 (no. R 6065/1936)

Publication/Creation

[1952?]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 15.1 x 11 cm

Lettering

Preserved head with facial tattoo. Maori, New Zealand ... Lettering continues with text about role of tattooing among the Maori

References note

Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commonwealth, London 1952, fig. 4 and p. 34

Reference

Wellcome Collection 645972i

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