Unlike other neighboring peoples or cultures, they did not practice headhunting, and their skulls were considered...

The Kelabit are an indigenous subgroup within the broader Dayak ethnic group, the name that encompasses many native peoples of...

The painted human skulls of New Ireland are part of the funerary, spiritual, and social traditions of the peoples of...

The Apo Kayan tribe are a Dayak ethnic subgroup from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia, headhunters...

The TIV voodoo skulls of Nigeria, are highly valued because they are powerful and dangerous with them, the descendants...

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 skulls, and sometimes other remains belonging to deceased relatives, were decorated and carried on the back during mourning. They were believed to have the power to...

Korwar carvings are reliquaries with ancestral skulls that serve to house the soul or spirit of...

The warriors of the Marquesas Islands, famous for their elaborate and enormous tattoos, trophies and large war clubs...