Bone box with appendicular bones.

Bone box with appendicular bones.

Osteological Preparations

Skeletons

Anatomy & Histology

Educational Techniques

human remains

B-133 is inscribed in red ink on the box and a black label on the front reads:

"Homo.
Teenage [18]
Epiph not
fused
Long bone[s]"

Wooden box with metal handle on front containing appendicular bones of 18 year old male.

Unknown

1880-1900

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Warren Anatomical Museum (21035)

image

osteological preparation, human

physical object

WAM 21035

Parkman Professor of Anatomy Oliver Wendell Holmes started the bone box loan program at Harvard Medical School in 1881. This specific bones box, described as from an adolescent male, likely dated from this early era of the program. Unfortunately the inventory records of HMS bone boxes numbers are unreliable, and the age ascribed to individuals is questionable as well.

15.9 W x x 52 D x 17.75 H cm (closed)