M0009132: Trepanned skull from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Trephined skulls.

Photograph of a trepanned skull, showing the hole in the frontal bone just above the left brow ridge. The skull is from New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It was collected by Rev. J. A. Crump, who gave it to his friend Rev. George Brown, who presented it to the the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem in 1903. It was accessioned in 1938 (accession number R557/1938). The skull is not held by Wellcome Collection.

16 April 1945

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2020.

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