Tales are told of the results of the practice of shrinking heads, which are not without a certain grim irony.

There is a story, for example, of a red-headed white man who went into the interior on a trip of exploration charged with the commission of bringing out a dried and shrunken head. It was months after he had departed that a shrunken-head came out, by devious channels, from the jungle, but the head had red hair…

H.E. Anthony, The National Geographic Magazine. October 1921.

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