M0011699: Red earthenware head, showing teeth, Mayan: side view

Date:
December 1950
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/104/7
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Profile red earthenware Octoberan head, showing teeth, hollow, back broken away.

Description

Photograph of a Mayan hollow, red earthenware head showing teeth with the back broken away. The item was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1907 and given the object number A13142. It was given to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966. Related images: M0011698

Publication/Creation

December 1950

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the index card which provides an entry for the item (image 233)

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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.

Terms of use

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

Where to find it

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