Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones On the reverse you can

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

it was missing some teeth

The colour red is auspicious in Tibetan culture

" This is a genuine early example of these and not a more modern reproduction

This is a skull of the common guillemot

Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones On the reverse you canThese 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.