shrunken head References shrunken head talisman Ask Anything Homework Help Also known as: tsantsa Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: headhunting…skin with hot sand, thus shrinking it to the size of the head of a small monkey but preserving the features intact. There, again, headhunting was probably associated with cannibalism in a ceremonial form. Read More…skin with hot sand, thus shrinking it to the size of the head of a small monkey but preserving the features intact. There, again, headhunting was probably associated with cannibalism in a ceremonial form. Read MoreJívaroThese shrunken heads (tsantsas) are prepared by removing the skin and boiling it; hot stones and sand are then put inside the skin to shrink it further. Headhunting was motivated by a desire for revenge and by the belief that a head gave the taker supernatural… Read MoreThese shrunken heads (tsantsas) are prepared by removing the skin and boiling it; hot stones and sand are then put inside the skin to shrink it further. Headhunting was motivated by a desire for revenge and by the belief that a head gave the taker supernatural… Read More
