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  • Shrunken heads.
  • Shrunken heads.
  • Shrunken heads with strings from mouth.
  • Shrunken heads displayed on vases and as hanging baskets. Photograph, ca. 1890 (?).
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, shrunken heads.
  • A shrunken head. Photograph, 19--.
  • A shrunken head. Photograph, 19--.
  • Shrunken head compared with normal human skull.
  • The shrunken head of a Huambisa person of Peru. Photograph, 1899.
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.
  • Kalyo Kengyu, northern India: human heads hung up as trophies in a Naga village. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, display
  • shunken head
  • Alzheimers disease
  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Nov 1906
  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Nov 1906
  • An operator making an incision behind the ear of a seated patient, two assistants restraining the patient, and six other people in the room. Oil painting attributed to Joachim van den Heuvel, 163-.