An Interesting Small Human Skull (1800 to 1900 India)

Bone

Inscribed to the top: ‘skull of a Hindoo killed by alligator…Mond …. Hardwar May 1840’
See: Finch & Co catalogue no. 5, item no. 1, for another interesting human skull

All earthly life is transient: ‘Memento Mori’. Artists have used the skull as an image for the personification of death for centuries and even today contemporary artists use the skull as a potent symbol of man’s fear of death.

An Interesting Small Human Skull
Inscribed to the top: ‘skull of a Hindoo killed by alligator…Mond …. Hardwar May 1840’
Circa 1840

Size: 14cm high, 17cm deep, 12.5cm wide – 5 ins high, 6¾ ins deep, 5 ins wide