The crude method of trephining [sic] with the sharpened edge of a stone practiced by peoples living in Peru some 500 or 600 years ago is revealed by the skulls at the National Museum

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The crude method of trephining [sic] with the sharpened edge of a stone practiced by peoples living in Peru some 500 or 600 years ago is revealed by the skulls at the National Museum

Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c15187 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c15187
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-115187 (b&w film copy neg.)

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The crude method of trephining [sic] with the sharpened edge of a stone practiced by peoples living in Peru some 500 or 600 years ago is revealed by the skulls at the National Museum