M0008968: Full face: Restoration of head of Old man of Cro-Magnon

Date:: November 1943

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/78/68

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008898-M0008998WT/D/1/20/1/78
        M0008968: Full face: Restoration of head of Old man of Cro-MagnonWT/D/1/20/1/78/68

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M0008968: Full face: Restoration of head of Old man of Cro-Magnon. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Upper Paleolithic Man, old-man of Cio-Magnon after the model by J.H. McGregor

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a model of the head of the Old man of Cro-Magnon, by J.H. McGregor. Modelled after the type skull of Cro Magnon, Dordogne, with teeth restored and face given a younger appearence. The reproduction is from Osborn, Henry Fairfield: Men of the stone age: their environment, life and art, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Related images: M0008960, M0008961, M0008962, M0008963, M0008964, M0008965, M0008966, M0008967, M0008969

Publication/Creation

November 1943

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

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Anthropology

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