JÍBARO

JÍBARO: the shrunken head, ritual of the Shuar and Achuar peoples of the Amazon.

The Jívaro are one of the most interesting and poorly told peoples in history: their tsantsa practice — the shrunken head — wasn't a trophy but a ritual of absorbing the enemy's spirit. The process could take weeks: defleshing, boiling in medicinal plants, filling with hot stones, sewing the lips shut so the soul couldn't escape. What reached popular imagination as "shrunken head" had a complete cosmology behind it that 20th century anthropologists only started to understand.

13 x 14 cm sticker, matte laminated, water resistant.

Specs

• Matte laminated sticker
• Water and scratch resistant
• High-quality adhesive

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