M0005282: Boy with incision of the frontal bone, Papua New Guinea

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Incision of the frontal bone, New Britain from Parkinson's Dreissig Jahre der Sudsee

Reproduction of a photograph of a boy with incision of the frontal bone, Papua New Guinea. Originally published in Dreissig Jahre der Sudsee by Richard Parkinson, Stuttgart, 1907.

November 1937

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 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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