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 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...
The Marind-anim tribe, (New Guinea - Indonesia).
They were known headhunters and cannibals, although they did not hunt for food, but...
Korwar carvings are reliquaries with ancestral skulls that serve to house the soul or spirit of...
