A skull trophy of the Melawi tribe, engraved skull,split in the middle and missing the lower halves of the skull connected by means of a rattan netting at the nasal and the parietal whole skull patinated,with distinct traces of age at the facial 14 tradition of head hunting was practised amongst the indigenous tribes of Borneo until the late 19th century when it was finally suppressed by the colonial the trophy skulls was part of the special rites of the Melawi tribe,sometimes t,Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available

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