Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones This is a skull of

This is a skull of the common guillemot

On the reverse you can see that it is stitched with plant fibres onto a rough hessian type backing

These are made by the Bena Bena people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

The bone has gained a lovely deep colour and a rich patina over the years

Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones This is a skull ofThese bones were part of a collection from a medical school museum. This is a collection of disarticulated skull bones comprising of the frontal, two parietals (both left) and a sphenoid. The parietals still have the medical school collection number on them. All the bones have a very pale white colour which would suggest that they were prepared in the second half of the last century.