How to make a Jivaro Shrunken Head
- Remove head.
- Make a slit from the back of the head to the crown of the head.
- Separate the fleshy part of the face and the top of the head from the skull. (Skull may be thrown in river to placate Anaconda god.)
- Turn face inside out and scrape all fatty tissue off.
- Place the head into a pot of simmering water (do not boil, or hair may fall off).
- Simmer until head is about two thirds natural size.
- Sew back of neck, eyes and lips closed with plant fiber.
- Heat small pebbles in fire and place in head, constantly moving.
- When head is too small for pebbles use hot sand.
- Dye head blue-black with plant dyes.
- While heating, continuously mold face to keep the look of its original owner as much as possible.
- Use heated knife to dry and shrink lips.
- Wear around neck.
6 comments:
Ok, I am a little creeped out at reading these directions, but I kinda love it too! You guys are doing such a great job! Keep it up!!
This one won't make it in the Grimm recipe box nor in a How To class speech.
Jan,
Did Audacity break each of Dawn's answers into approx. 15 second increments for you too?
That is what I'm getting when I import audio into Audacity. Not a huge deal. Just creates more work.
Hmmmm...I wonder why it does that automatically?
Nate and Jan,
Let me know if there is something I can do to help with the editing of the sound. From Nate's comment, I gather there may be more problems to using Audictity.
This recipe is one I would love to share with my World Cultures students. They will get a kick out of and then we can discuss the idea of shrinking heads. A concept we are glad is no longer practiced (except for tourist- It's scary what we as tourist will buy.)
Nate- you want to edit from the large Audacity file not the little ones in the data folder. I'll help when you come tomorrow.
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