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Head Shrinkers
A few tribes in Amazonian Ecuador used to shrink heads as part of
their post war rituals. Visit the links below for additional
ethnological and anthropological data.
But what is head shrinking? How is the procedure carried out?
The heads of both men and women were shrunk. The head was severed with
a clean cut of the neck. The skin was carefully peeled from the back
of the skull forward and preserved. The skull and brain were
discarded. The skin was then turned inside out and all the fat was
scraped.
A rope was inserted through an incision at the top of the skin. The
head was dipped into a pot of boiling water and chinchipi plant juice.
It was left to simmer for two hours until the hair is soft and the
head shrinks by two thirds to three quarters of its previous size. All
the cuts and incisions are sown and the lips are attached to each
other with minute bamboo nails.
Next, the neck is shrunk repeatedly over a few days by inserting hot
pebbles and hot sand into the cavity. Scalding stones are also used to
massage the face in order to conserve the facial features.
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