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The process of creating a shrunken head begins with removing the skull from the neck. An incision is made on the back of the ear and all the skin and flesh is removed from the cranium. Red seeds are placed underneath the nostrils and the lips are sewn shut. The mouth is held together with three palm
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for his expedition raft. Local people would not guide his team into the jungle for fear of being killed and having their heads shrunk. In 1951 and 1952 sales of such items in
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features the return of the hunter with the shrunken head, Bob, alongside many other Ghosts with shrunken heads now employed as
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featured a ghost of a hunter whose head had been shrunken. At the end of the movie, the title character suffers the same fate.
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