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Description: | The University of Aberdeen's Anthropological Skulls collection has recently been added to Marischal Museum's collection having previously been part of the anatomy collection. This collection of skulls, crania and calvariae are accompanied by catalogue from 1923 which provides the measurements, indices, collector and history of the specimen. The catalogue and specimens have an antiquated arrangement, which was adopted from Professor Plower of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons England and are arranged as follows: White Caucasian races; Yellow and Red Mongolian; Australian; Black races. The skulls are in various stages of completeness and some are damaged or mutilated. A number of the skulls have been altered to allow observations of various internal features of the skull and some show signs of having been part of a post mortem examination. The skulls have been presented to the museum from a number of circumstances including discovery during building works, the result of execution, the removal from burial grounds, the transfer from the dissecting room, and as ethnographic specimens displaying the rituals surrounding death in other cultures. Skulls that have undergone post mortem decoration include those which have been incised with patterns, decorated with beads, skulls which have clay and bamboo nose pieces added. The collection also includes a number of specimens which show medical conditions, such as a skull of a person who suffered from Microcephaly (where the circumference of the head is more than two standard deviations smaller than average), syphilis and small pox. The collection is comprehensive and reflects the history of teaching of medicine, health and anthropology at Aberdeen University.
Super collection: Marischal Museum.
Objects: skull; cranium; calvaria. | Subjects: | World Culture America Archaeology Biological Science Religion and Beliefs Europe Asia Africa. | Temporal: | 800 - 1000AD - 1906 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUA:CLD86 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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