A shrunken head, 20th century. Light brown to reddish hair with grey streaks. Lighter-coloured bushy eyebrows and dense reddish to ginger facial hair with distinctive moustache. The back part of the scalp and the neck removed for the extraction of the skull. The inside of the shrunken head with a piece of treated snake skin which was pulled through slits over the nasal bridge, the tail protruding tongue-like from the widely opened mouth. Height 13 cm. The external features of this shrunken head indicate that the person did not belong to an ethnic, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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Keywords: 20th, brown, century, hair, head, light, reddish, shrunken