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  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • Spirit canoe, Alaska. Among the Kwakiutle people of British Columbia it was customary to release a spirit canoe in the water, when a body was buried near a shore, in order to send the soul or spirit of the dead person on its journey.
  • Shrunken heads.
  • Shrunken head compared with normal human skull.
  • Shrunken heads.
  • Shrunken heads with strings from mouth.
  • Circle of interments - family graves, Aylesford, Kent.
  • Coffin burial and grave goods. Cristhorpe Cliff and Tumuli.
  • Long chambered burial cairn, Midhowe, Rousay, Orkney.