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| Type of Object: | Human Remains |
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| Material: | Animal Skins |
| Measurements: | Various |
| Date or Period: | Pre-Columbian |
| Maker: | Pre-Columbian |
| Designated List Category: | VIE False Human Trophy Heads |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 06/11/1997 |
| Photograph: | National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru |
| Copyright : | National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| False shrunken heads can be recognized because they are made of the skin of a mammal, with some of the fur left where the human hair would be. The skin is first smoked, then pressed into a mold to give it a face-like shape. The eyes, nose, mouth and ears are simple bumps without real holes. Further, the skin is very thin and yellowish in color. Often the "heads" have eyebrows and mustaches formed by leaving some of the animal hair, but these features a grotesque because the appear to grow upside down. | |
| Keywords: | |
| false shrunken heads, human remains, mold-made, Pre-Columbian Human Remains, |
