M0011717: Mural engraving of masked human figure with antler head piece

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Magdalenian, Mural engraving of masked human figure with antler head piece.

Watercolour drawing by Pierre Gatier of a Magdalenian mural engraving in La Grotte des Trois Freres (cave of the Three Brothers), showing a masked human figure with an antler head piece, clad in skin of deer. The figure, partly incised and partly painted in black, is situated in the inmost recess of the cave and dominates hundreds of engravings of animals in the cave. It is held to represent a magician. The watercolour was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1931 and accessioned in 1945 (accession numbers CC 5304 and P27/1945)

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the item: acc. number CC 5304 (image 200) and acc. Number P27/1

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.