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Ref NoDF/PAL/141/112
Alt Ref NoDF141/112
TitleHuman remains excavated abroad
DescriptionFormer ref: AL 1956/15
Fragment of fossilised human bone from Köstritz collected in 1820
Donation of 11 skulls by Mrs Estelle Fuller from British Columbia, Canary Islands, Nigeria, Chile, and Peru registered as museum collection number 1965.3.3.1-11
Sgt E Wigglesworth relating to a skeleton from Cyprus
B Kalcev relating to a donation of a skull from the cave of the Manambolo River, Madagascar.
F G Gardiner relating to the donation of a human skull fragment from Thomsons Falls, Kenya
T Witworth relating to loan of three human bone fragments and one bone implement from Kabua, Kenya
Mrs Bolsover relating to the donating a human femur collected by Mr Northcote Whitteridge Thomas
M McEwen, Gibraltar Museum, relating to a skull, Gibraltar
Date1956-1967
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
LevelFile
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