Trephination

‘Cranial Surgery’, 5″ X 7″, pen and ink.

‘Cranial Surgery’, 9″ X 12″, pen and ink.

Apparently a javelin went into his skull and was extracted by scraping around the wound with an obsidian blade. This fellow survived the javelin and the surgery as the bone had healed.

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