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Bulletin (1901)

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology · Washington : G.P.O. · leaf 87

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STIRLING] THE JIVARO INDIANS 63 When Lubbock presented his article on Jivaro shrunken heads be- fore the British Anthropological Institute in 1874 Franks called to his attention a specimen in the National Collection of London, which had been presented by the Prince Consort of 1853. This example is … FicurRE 1.—Prehistoric representations of reduced human heads. 4a, described as being about 1 inch in height, attached to a stick and dressed like a doll. It was said to have been discovered in a tomb in Pisco, Peru.*® Harty Historica Data There are several references in contemporary writings of…

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