c. 1045
Part of a set. See all set records
Bone, plain weave undyed silk
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462.f
This bone is a portion of the occipital bone, where the spinal cord connects to the brain.
This relic is housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.
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