The head, known as a tsantsa, was authenticated to be sent back to the Ecuador government Digital News Writer, PEOPLE A shrunken head that was used in the 1979 dark comedy Wise Bloods was recently ...

Researchers from Western University have verified the authenticity of a South American tsantsa (shrunken head) as human remains, an important step in the global effort toward decolonization and ...

Shrunken heads have long been an object of fascination, widely displayed in Western museums. The Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum chain proudly boasts that it has “more than 100 genuine shrunken ...

An auction house in England has withdrawn human remains, including shrunken heads and ancestral skulls, from sale following an outcry. The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire withdrew more ...

For the past several weeks, I've been processing the extensive Hartwig Kuhlenbeck collection. Kuhlenbeck, born in Germany in 1897, was Professor of Anatomy and, later, Emeritus Professor at Woman's ...

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A museum at Oxford University has removed its famous collection of shrunken heads and other human remains from display as it seeks to "decolonise" its collection. Pitt Rivers Museum, which is to ...