Bone Collection (page 4)

PAPINS BONE DIGESTER
Diagram of Papins Bone Digester. Date: 1687

Temporary Treatment of Bone Fractures, including rifle used as a splint, cricket bat used as a splint, slings, triangular bandages, shawl caps, huntsmans whips used as splint

African women and girl in native dress
Two African women and a girl in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with their skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

African woman in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with her skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

Andrewsarchus mongoliencis, Skull cast
Cast of the only known cranium of Andrewsarchus mongoliensis from the Eocene of Irdin Manha, China (original is in the AMNH)

Barbary lion skull
Oldest UK skull of a North African Barbary lion, Panthera leo leo, dated to 1280-1385. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago

Anarhichas lupus, wolf eel
The skull of a wolf eel (Anarhichas lupus) whose teeth are specially adapted for crushing and eating spiny sea urchins. The wolf eel is native to British waters

Food adulteration, 1845
London improvements : adulteration of food in 1845. Sand is added to sugar, milk is watered down, bone dust and plaster of paris is added to dough and Vitriol is mixed into gin. Date: 1845

Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Doctor to be eaten
Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Western Doctor, investigating the Culinary Habits of the Cannibal Islands is himself about to become the entrea.. Date: circa 1910s

Homo erectus cranium casts Peking Man & OH9
Left: This skull is a reconstruction based upon evidence discovered at locality 1, Zhoukoudian Cave which date back 500, 000 years

Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster), Turkana boy (KNM-WT 15000)
A replica of the fossil cranium (with reconstruction) that once belonged to a male Homo erectus aged 9 to 12 years old when he died

Painted skull of Arius sp. crucifix fish
Specimen of the skull of a crucifix fish painted to resemble a statue of Jesus Christ on the cross. Often painted and sold as curios

Homo erectus, Java Man cranium (Sangiran 17)

Carnotaurus skeleton
This dinosaur lived around 70 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous period. It grew up to 7.6 metres tall and fossils have been discovered in Argentina. Illustration by Jo Konopelko

Occipital bone of horse skull (Arab racing pony, NHM reference NHMADAR.H40)

Delphinus doris, plate 20
Illustration of the skull of Delphinus doris taken from The Lizards of Australia and New Zealand by John Edward Gray (1800-1875)

Rhyniognatha hirsti
A pair of jaws (mandibles) preserved in a fragment of Rhynie Chert and mounted on a glass microscope slide. This is the worlds oldest fossil insect part

Psittacosaurus skull
A fossil skull that belonged to the parrot-beaked like dinosaur, Psittacosaurus. It lived during the lower Cretaceous period aroun 120 - 100 million years ago

Monachus tropicalis, Caribbean monk seal
A drawing of the lateral view of Phocid skeleton. Figure 7 from Seals of the World by Judith E. King. Published by The British Museum of Natural History, 1964

Three views of a wolf bone excavated at Vestonice
Proof that the mammoth-hunters of 30, 000 years ago knew how to count: three views of a wolf bone (the radius) marked with numerical notches

General Sir E. H. Allenby
One of a superb series depicting Generals and Admirals of the British Forces. They were drawn by Francis Dodd R.A who replaced his brother-in-law Muirhead Bone as an Official War Artist

General Sir H. S. Horne
One of a superb series depicting Generals and Admirals of the British Forces. They were drawn by Francis Dodd R.A who replaced his brother-in-law Muirhead Bone as an Official War Artist

Lt-General Sir H. E. Watts
One of a superb series depicting Generals and Admirals of the British Forces. They were drawn by Francis Dodd R.A who replaced his brother-in-law Muirhead Bone as an Official War Artist

Lt. General Sir W. N. Congreve
One of a superb series depicting Generals and Admirals of the British Forces. They were drawn by Francis Dodd R.A who replaced his brother-in-law Muirhead Bone as an Official War Artist

General The Hon. Sir J. H. G. Byng
One of a superb series depicting Generals and Admirals of the British Forces. They were drawn by Francis Dodd R.A who replaced his brother-in-law Muirhead Bone as an Official War Artist

Lt. General The Rt. Hon. Jan C. Smuts
One of a superb series depicting Generals and Admirals of the British Forces. They were drawn by Francis Dodd R.A who replaced his brother-in-law Muirhead Bone as an Official War Artist

Greetings card in the shape of a bone -- A bone for you to pick. Date: circa 1890s

Dog costermonger selling in the street on a Christmas card
Dog costermonger selling juicy bones in the street on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Photograph of Blade Bone PH, Bethnal Green, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

African girl in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with her skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

Prehistory. Paleolithic. Lucy skeleton. Reproduction
Prehistory. Paleolithic. Lucy. Common name of AL 288-1. Reproduction of the bones representing the skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis

Homo heidelbergensis. Skull number 5. Atapuerca, Spain
Homo heidelbergensis. Skull number 5. Discovered in the Pit of Bones Site of Atapuerca (Spain). European Middle Pleistocene. Atapuerca. Spain

Medieval tools. 12th-13th centuries. Bone and horn
Tools in animal bone and horn. 12th-13th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Harpoons. Bone. Maglemosian Culture, 8700-6500 BC
Harpoons made of elk or red deer bone. Maglemosian Culture, 8700-6500 BC. National Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark

Tools of flint and animal bones. Performed by Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon). Upper Paleolithic. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Crossbow hunting of Emperor Maximilian I. 16th century
Crossbow hunting of Emperor Maximilian I. Innsbruck. 16th century. Iron, steel, wood and bone. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany

Town Hall, Bone (Annaba), Algeria
Town Hall and Cours Bertagna, Bone (Annaba), Algeria, with a newspaper and postcard kiosk. Date: circa 1920

German bombardment of Algerian port, WW1
German bombardment of an Algerian port, North Africa, 4 August 1914, during the First World War -- a photograph with artists additions

Two young girls with horse and cart, Eccles, Manchester
Two young girls pose by the horse and cart of the Rag and Bone Man, who used to travel around the Eccles area shouting for scrap materials. Date: circa 1975

Burhinus grallarius, skeleton Gould Collection
Bush stone-curlew, Burhinus grallarius, skeleton collected in Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia

Carved Hornbill Skull
Casque of a helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) carved to depict a Chinese battle scene set in a town by a river. There also features a figure holding a flag bearing the Chinese w鮠 character

Rough-toothed dolphin skull with ink scrimshaw
Skull of a rough-toothed dolphin, a species that lives deep in tropical waters.The skull, believed to date back to 1850, has been decorated with ink by sailors in scrimshaw

Homo neanderthalensis and Homo heildebergensis
Left: Cranium of Neanderthal man discovered at Forbes quarry Gibraltar in 1848. Right: Cranium of Broken Hill, or Rhodesian man (H. heidelbergensis) discovered at Broken Hill, Zambia in 1921

Broken Hill skull, Homo heidelbergensis, discovered in Africa in 1921. The skull belonged to an adult male and may be 200, 000 to 300, 000 years old

Weddell seal skull, Leptonychotes weddellii
Specimen collected by Robert Falcon Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition

Old man with prams and junk, Balham, SW London
An old man with a line of prams containing junk on a street in Balham, SW London. He is outside a rag and bone merchants premises where he hopes to get money in exchange for the junk

Siberian Lemming - skull in tundra (typical scene due to a high lemming population), next to a flowering White Dryas (Dryas octopetala) plant (Lemmus sibiricus)

Chinese lacquer album
Chinese black lacquer album with a dragon in bone or ivory and mother of pearl set into the cover. Date: C.1905

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