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SCARY YET…… VERY…INTRIGUING!
SIZE: This fantastic shrunken head measure approximately 4 1/8″ x 1/4″ not including the beautiful flowing black hair. The size of the head is actually much larger when you include the hair…
This tsantsa presents well with a fabulous look due to the use of real animal hide and hair. SPECTACULAR LONG HAIR… appears quite ……….D E A D ……Looks just like a real head taken by the famed Jivaro Indian headhunters of South America.
This is a gorgeous museum piece that normally sells for hundreds of dollars. I have 3 others, so, my loss is your gain!
The practice of head hunting – removing the head of an adversary after killing him in battle as a trophy of the victory – is historically widespread over much of the world. In the 3rd century B.C. Chinese state of Qin, soldiers would collect the heads of their fallen enemies and tie them around their waist to terrorize and demoralize their opponents during battle. In New Guinea, the Marind-anim tribe would take the head of their enemies to control their spirits and would often also cannibalize the flesh of their bodies. The Celts of Europe also practiced headhunting up through the end of the Middle Ages. A successful Celt warrior would nail the heads of his enemies to his walls as a warning to others.
Despite the many forms of head hunting around the world, only one group traditionally practiced the art of taking a trophy human head and reducing it in size to that of a man’s fist. Head shrinking, as this practice has come to be known, was the exclusive providence of the Jivaro Indians who live in Ecuador and the nearby Peruvian Amazon. The Jivaro are divided into smaller sub-groups which include the Shuar, Achuar, Huambisa and the Aguaruna tribes.
