# Shrunked Heads, where to get one?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrunked-heads-where-to-get-one/373821>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrunked-heads-where-to-get-one/373821 "2006-09-23T05:48:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrunked-heads-where-to-get-one/373821/21 "2011-06-21T03:42:56Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> … some using baboon skin, eww.

You’re right, human skin is much less ewwer. 🙂

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**Author:** ![bluezooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@bluezooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluezooky)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrunked-heads-where-to-get-one/373821/22 "2011-06-21T07:42:29Z")

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“Speaking of Obscura, I happened to click by on the channel and saw a guy selling a human skull encrusted with Buddhist symbols, stones, etc. Damn if the husband doesn’t actually own one of those! Proudly displayed between the shrunken head and a stone carving of a warriors head, from Timor. But I didn’t see either what they paid for it or what they’re selling it for, and you just know he’s dying for that tidbit of info. Anyone see the show?”  
I don’t specifically know a lot about Buddhism however many Hindu monastic orders practice water burial and you can easily find their skulls along the Ganges, some monks or yogis will us them for certain rituals, I’ve seen them for sale in the west maker a nice incense ash holder I suppose.

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**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrunked-heads-where-to-get-one/373821/24 "2012-02-24T15:37:19Z")

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A creepy shrunken head… to display next to your creepy mummified corpse… uff creepy.

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**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrunked-heads-where-to-get-one/373821/25 "2012-02-24T15:47:20Z")

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> [@torresm.gonzalo](#):
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> Hi, I have an original one. My grandfather (Harvard PHD) worked in Ecuador in the 40’s and 50’s developing and implementing a public health program for this country. During the years he worked there, he travelled all around the Country. A very famous equadorian anthropologist and a collaborator to his work gave him as a gift a genuine Tzantza. Before my grandfather passed away he gave it to me and my sisters. We would like to sell it. If you or anybody it is interested to buy it, please let me know. Thanks

The OP hasn’t been active since 2006, I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for an offer.

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