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Circle of interments - family graves, Aylesford, Kent.

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.

Coffin burial and grave goods. Cristhorpe Cliff and Tumuli.

Shrunken heads with strings from mouth.

Long chambered burial cairn, Midhowe, Rousay, Orkney.

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Shrunken head compared with normal human skull.

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.

Circle of interments - family graves, Aylesford, Kent.

Shrunken heads with strings from mouth.