These sequined figures with a human skull represent Zazi Maza Wangòl, a forest spirit who...
The Apo Kayan tribe are a Dayak ethnic subgroup from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia, headhunters...
The Dayak are a tribe of feared headhunters from Borneo, Indonesia. Famous for the "trophy skulls" they take from...
The TIV voodoo skulls of Nigeria, are highly valued because they are powerful and dangerous with them, the descendants...
Kapalas were usually made from donors and from skulls collected from heavenly cemeteries, an ancient Tibetan...
Some overmodeled skulls were part of full-body effigies known as rambaramps. Only the highest-status men in...
The Aztec skulls from Tonalá, decorated with mosaics, belonged to young men treated as gods who...
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...