M0003753: Lesions on the vertex of a female skull

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Lesions on the vertex of a female skull from Peruvian Amazons

Reproduction of a photograph showing lesions on the vertex of a female skull from Peruvian Amazonia. The caption on the print implies that this cauterization may have been purposefully done to counteract "melancholia."

December 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

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.

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