The Apo Kayan tribe are a Dayak ethnic subgroup from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia, headhunters...
The TIV voodoo skulls of Nigeria, are highly valued because they are powerful and dangerous with them, the descendants...
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...
Korwar carvings are reliquaries with ancestral skulls that serve to house the soul or spirit of...
