A shrunken head, Amazon region. Half-long, dark brown hair, eyes not sewed, the lips with impressions and remnants of the sewing string. On the back of the head a long preparation seam reaching up to the crown. In the throat area two additional sutures. Height of the head 12 cm. Very fine preserved piece and an impressive evidence for the practice of head hunting among the Indian tribes of the Amazon region, which continued into the 1950s. historic, historical 20th century, American, America, ethnology, ethnicity, ethnic, object, objects, clipping, cut out, cut,

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