A display of five ceramic heads, mounted on posts in a wood base, from the Abe Weisman Collection of Pre-Columbian Medical Sculptures. According to the included booklet, "this collection of sculpture and pottery dug from the graves of Mexico and Central and South America tells us of the astonishing medical knowledge of civilizations that vanished long ago. With startling and sometimes shocking realism, the sculptors depicted the pathology of many diseases and the physical states of their peoples, the knowledge of their physicians, the skill of their surgeons. They captured in clay the visible signs of malnutrition, deformity, physical and mental illness, the stages of pregnancy and childbirth, the techniques of amputation, trephining, and, it is possible, even the knowhow of cesarean section." 

Dimensions: (overall display) 8h x 13 x 2 inches

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Overall good condition. Little surface wear visible across. Please see photos.