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I saw this article today and thought it was interesting. It reminded me a of a museum back home called Woolaroc that has a few shrunken head in it that my brothers and I thought was the coolest thing in the world the first time we saw them. It is also the place where I had my first Buffalo burger, they raise Buffalo on the grounds of the museum and its Nature Park.I was not aware that there was any controversy surrounding the practice of heaqd0hunting. I thought it was pretty well established as having actually occurred. The article makes it sound as though there was doubt of the practice. I think there are still tribes in South America that do it. I did know that many of them were faked and sold as curiosities in the 18th and 19th centuries.
I saw an episode of Storage Wars (love that show) in which one of the guys, Barry, finds a shrunken head in a storage unit. He brought it in to be examined by someone and I believe he discovered that his was a fake, though it looked pretty real. I imagine that the interest in shrunken heads around the 19th century went hand-in-hand with the interest in the exotic, Orient, and Near East that we see so much of during that time.
