Headhunting
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Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim. More portable body parts can be taken as trophies, instead. Headhunting has been practiced by m
Digital painting of a Mississippian-era priest, with a ceremonial flint mace and a severed head, based on a repousse copper plate.
A 1908 photo of a Bontoc warrior bearing a headhunter's chaklag chest tattoo
Punan Bah heads taken by Sea Dayaks
Human skulls in a tribal village; colonial Papua, 1885
Michael Rockefeller
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Michael Clark Rockefeller was an American anthropologist and art collector and member of the Rockefeller family. He was a son of New York Governor and later U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, a g
Headhunting
…be a defensive practice, presumably as protection against the Citak, a tribe of neighbouring headhunters. Some researchers believe that the American Michael Rockefeller, who disappeared in New Guinea in 1961 while on a field trip, may have been taken by headhunters in the Asmat region. He was the son of New York Governor…
Rockefeller in 1961
Location of Otsjanep, Asmat Regency, South Papua, Indonesia
Nelson Rockefeller holds a press conference in Merauke, Indonesia, about the disappearance of his son Michael