Skulls Collection (page 2)

Solomon Islanders
Head hunters of the Solomon Islands. Date: 1934

A Dupuis head and shoulders of a German cavalryman
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of an German soldier
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of a German Territorial
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head & shoulders of a German infantry officer
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of a French soldier
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of a Flanders sailor
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of an British soldier
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of an Indian soldier
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of a Montenegran soldier
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

A Dupuis head and shoulders of a Serbian soldier
French artist Emile Dupuis produced three series of postcards between 1914 and 1915. They were Nos Allies (our Allied soldiers)

Sarmatians. Deformed human skulls. Probably dated in the 3rd
Sarmatians. Two deformed human skulls. Probably dated in the 3rd century BC. Kerch Historical and Archaeological Museum. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ukraine

Cartoon, The Mad Dog of Europe, WW1
Cartoon, America should help to catch the mad dog of Europe (a quotation from the New York Press). Showing an allegorical America driving out Kaiser Wilhelm II. Date: 1915

Rome, Italy - Capuchin Monks Campo Santo
Black and white. A crypt in which the walls are completely covered in human skulls. In addition there are three skeletons dressed in monks clothes attached to the wall in a standing position

DINOSAUR Skeleton - Gigantosaurus. Argentina

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

The War of the Worlds - The City watching me
" The whole city seemed to look at me with eerie eyes. White house windows were empty sockets in skulls, and my imagination set around me a thousand silent enemies." Date: First published

Fantastic Adventures - Cats of Kadenza
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1944, featuring the story Cats of Kadenza by Don Wilcox. Old man stares terrified in a mysterious glowing hand mirror. Cats scramble over some skulls. Date: 1944

Fantastic Adventures - The Singing Skulls
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1945, featuring the story The Singing Skulls by Don Wilcox. Glamorous woman shocked by floating (and singing)

Communal graves had all sorts of jewellery buried with them
Prehistory. Finland. Europe. Levanluhta swampy. Hundred peope have been buried to the former lake in the Iron Age. Found jewellery buried with them. Dated to the 300-700 BC

Portugal. Evora. Chapel of Bones. Church of St. Francis. Wal
Portugal. Evora. Chapel of Bones. Chapel located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis. The interior walls are covered with human skulls and bones.16th century

SKULLS / 1841
SKULLS i) A Greek skull resting on a pile of books ii) An elongated skull from Titicaca Date: 1841

Selection of skulls

Identified, cartoon in the Tatler by Will Owen
Black and white cartoon in the Tatler of 3rd November 1909 entitled Identified, by Will Owen. A whiskered professor is showing a photograph to very glamourous Miss Barnes of Noo York who obviously

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Promotional postcard of one of R. C. Carters 1901 cartoons of famous performers of the day. Forbes-Robertson As The Moody Dane

DINOSAUR Skeleton - Argentinosaurus vertibrae, Sauropod Dinosaur. South America, Argentina

Believed to be the skull of Alfred the Great
Five skulls, found at Winchester. When this picture was published in The Tatler in 1901, the central skull was believed to be that of Alfred the Great, and the others those of his family

Upper and lower human jaws
The upper and lower human jaws, depicted in two skulls, the lower of which is resting on a book Source: A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth

The top hat as a sign of chieftaincy in Sierra Leone. The civilised mans head-dress as a symbol of sovereignty for women as well as men rulers

The Piltdown jaw: a reconstruction by W. P Pycraft
A drawing by W. P Pycraft of the restored jaw of the Piltdown Man, showing a pronounced forward thrust. Date: 1912

The Naga head-hunters of Burma
Mr A. S. Vernay visited a village of the head-hunting Burmese Nagas with the American Museum of Natural History expedition, taking the photographs that appear on this page which include

Hythe, Kent - St Leonards Church - Ossuary. Date: circa 1906

Pile of elk horns - Yellowstone National Park
Pile of elk horns in front of the post office - Yellowstone National Park. Date: circa 1910

Zadar - Croatia - Porta Terraferma (" Kopnena vrata" - Landward Gate) Date: circa 1910s

German cemetery blown up by American shell, WW1
A German cemetery blown up by an American shell on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1918

Boss Croker
Richard Boss Croker, Sr. (1843 - 1922) - American politician. As head of the Tammany Hall (the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics)

Bones 1916
Skulls and bones litter the Ancre Valley battlefield

Djerba Island situated in the Gulf of Cabes. Near the Castle of Es Suk, is a tower of skulls and thigh-bones of fourteen thousand Spanish soldiers from 1558

Homestead in Iron Age
A homestead in the early Iron Age: warriors wearing furs and carrying spears; a woman with children; animal skulls on poles; chickens pecking grain in front of the building

Gilbert Sheldon
GILBERT SHELDON Archbishop of Canterbury (1663-1677). Built Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford

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