These sequined figures with a human skull represent Zazi Maza Wangòl, a forest spirit who...

Is it legal to own human skulls? In short: It depends. Owning them falls into a gray area almost everywhere...

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

Tsantsa, tzantza or shrunken head is the practice of the indigenous Shuar-Jíbaro people (South America) of "shrinking heads". This procedure made the...

The INCAS sacrificed children and young virgins as offerings to their gods: the sun, the earth, the mountains, the stars, the rays and to calm the volcanoes...

The Paracas and Nazca peoples are considered to belong to different cultures and there is enough geographic, chronological, political and...

Nkisi Mbumba skulls are considered magical objects filled with medicines that contain a spirit of an ancestor and...

The patterns drawn are believed to be designed or approved by the deceased themselves...

Nuestras momias en el Museo Arqueológico de Cacabelos. Our mummies at the Cacabelos Archaeological Museum.