How a ceremonial shrunken head, held by a US university for decades, was finally returned to Ecuador
Researchers have used CT-scans to help prove the authenticity of a south American ceremonial tsantsa, also known as a shrunken head, leading to its repatriation to Ecuador. The head had been in the ...
Researchers used CT scans to prove the authenticity of a shrunken head used the 1979 film Wise Blood, confirming that it is made with real human remains. The South American tsantsa was previously in ...
The Shuar people who lived around present-day Ecuador and Peru had a religious culture of processing human heads into shrunken heads called 'tsantzas.' However, as Europeans who were interested in ...
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