Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones The colour red is auspicious

The colour red is auspicious in Tibetan culture

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

The belt is 58cm long excluding the fastening cords

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

Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones The colour red is auspiciousThese 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.