These skulls were painted with beautiful patterns of intersecting parallel lines and dots (dot painting) that symbolize water, pathways...
The Toraja mummies are part of a still-existing funerary practice of the Torajan people, an ethnic group from...
The Iban are a subgroup of the Dayak in Borneo (Malaysia), and their trophy heads (antu pala) were obtained from their enemies; they believed...
The Kelabit are an indigenous subgroup within the broader Dayak ethnic group, the name that encompasses many native peoples of...
Some overmodeled skulls were part of full-body effigies known as rambaramps. Only the highest-status men in...
Nkisi Mbumba skulls are considered magical objects filled with medicines that contain a spirit of an ancestor and...
The Marind-anim tribe, (New Guinea - Indonesia).
They were known headhunters and cannibals, although they did not hunt for food, but...
The warriors of the Marquesas Islands, famous for their elaborate and enormous tattoos, trophies and large war clubs...
The NAGA tribe displayed the skulls of their enemies fallen in battle as a symbol of prosperity and abundance...
