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Headhunters

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  • Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.
  • Benin (Dahomey): men holding staffs made of human skulls with plumes of horsehair. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski (?), 19--.
  • Trophies of a headhunter's house of the Chang Naga tribe, India, including human skulls. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: Sea Dayak men at a head feast. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
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Catalogue

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    Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31448i
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    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.

    | Reference: 28791i
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    Trophies of a headhunter's house of the Chang Naga tribe, India, including human skulls. Photograph.

    | Date: 1900-1999 | Reference: 663209i
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    Sarawak: Sea Dayak men at a head feast. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31453i
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    Headhunting and the body in Iron Age Europe / Ian Armit.

    Armit, Ian. | Date: 2012
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