skull

pääkallo, kallo puhekieltä The main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium.
1922, (w), (w) Chapter 1

He was about to roar when, lying among the black sticks and straw under the cliff, he saw a whole skull—perhaps a cow's skull, a skull, perhaps, with the teeth in it. Sobbing, but absent-mindedly, he ran farther and farther away until he held the skull in his arms.