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THE HEADSHRINKING PROCESS
- First, the back of the head is opened and the skin is sliced free from the skull. Care is taken not to damage the facial features. While the skull and remaining flesh are discarded, the skin is boiled in water for half an hour (any longer and the hair may fall out).
- After being dried in the sun, the skin is turned inside out and any unwanted tissue is scraped off. The skin is formed into a sack shape and hot stones are used to burn off the fat inside.
MEET PIERS GIBBON
"You cut the head off and shrink it to ensure that the person is fully punished and also so that his spirit is not going to come back and cry for vengeance. It's very effective!”
— Gibbon, on why headshrinking was practiced by warrior tribes.
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http://www.piersgibbon.com/headshrinkers/
A British explorer and author as well as television host and correspondent, Piers Gibbon studied human sciences at Oxford University. For Channel 4 UK, he presented “Jungle Trip,” in which he had frog poison burned into his skin and swallowed a live millipede as part of a Peruvian shaman initiation ceremony. He has traveled extensively in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and the Sahara, and his book on tribes of the world will be published in 2010.
In Search for the Amazon Headshrinkers, Gibbon traveled to the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle and was held by machete-carrying Shuar tribe members and later subjected to questioning at a military checkpoint. He witnessed a series of healing rituals (involving an egg and tobacco) of a community leader who believed he was attacked by evil spirits, and he met the last remaining Shuar warrior of his generation.
Why did you agree to do the expedition?
THE POWER OF THE TSANTSA
By Kate Horne, Diverse Television
For years the Shuar people of Ecuador have been referred to in numerous travel articles and novels as the "savage head-shrinkers of the Amazon". Less has been written, however, about the motivation behind these Indians’ ritual head-shrinking ceremonies of the past.
SHUAR AND SHAMANISM
READ THE FASCINATING BIZARRE FACTS AND PRACTICES OF HEADSHRINKING AFTER THE JUMP!
Legends tell horrifying Amazon Indian Headshrinkers that reduce an enemy's head to make the soul revengeful powerless.
By Kate Horne, Diverse Television
To understand the culture of the Shuar people of Ecuador, it is crucial to appreciate the importance they place on “the hidden world.”
As the American academic and white shaman Michael Harner explains in his book The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls the Shuar believe that waking life is simply “a lie,” or illusion, while the true forces that determine daily events are supernatural. The Shuar believe that witchcraft is the cause of the vast majority of illnesses and non-violent deaths. This view of reality has created a demand for numerous Shuar shamans, people who are able to interpret the forces of the “real” world and help others interpret and deal with these supernatural elements.
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The lighter side of life — like cannibalism and poisons and explorers whose bodies have never been found.
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- Hot sand is added to reach the fat in hard-to-get-to places, such as the nose and lips. The head-taker massages the skin to help the drying process and produce the head shape once again.
- The process is repeated and can take up to six days, until the head is a quarter of its original size.
- The warrior must now make sure there is no revenge attack from the dead man’s soul: Eyes are sewn shut, preventing the victim’s spirit from seeing out, and wooden pins are placed through the lips and lashed together with string. This stops the soul from asking for the death to be avenged.
- The warrior is now safe, while the soul within will remain in the abyss.
Rare archival footage demonstrates the process of shrinking a human head. The Shuar engaged in this practice to render their victims powerless to take revenge.
SEARCH FOR THE AMAZON HEADSHRINKERS
“It’s beautiful to see a tsantsa [shrunken head]. It brings tears to my eyes that we are forgetting, not about the killing, but the customs back then.” — Silverio, Shuar
Terrifying legends from the Amazon tell of Indian headshrinkers who would shrink an enemy’s head to render the vengeful soul powerless. Now, NGC has exclusive U.S. access to 45-year-old archive footage captured by explorer Edmundo Bielawski, purportedly the only known footage that shows the process of an actual ― recently deceased ― human head being shrunk.
Facts
Headhunting occurred in many regions of the world. But the practice of headshrinking has only ever been recorded in the northwestern region of the Amazon rain forest.
The Shuar warrior tribe, one of the only cultures known to practice headshrinking, had a reputation as one of the Amazon’s most fierce indigenous people. They are famous for being the only people of the Amazon not conquered by the Spanish conquistadors.
A form of summary justice carried out on enemies, the headshrinking process was deemed necessary to stop the victim’s evil spirit from seeking revenge.
Legends tell horrifying Amazon Indian Headshrinkers that reduce an enemy's head to make the soul revengeful powerless.
Now I have exclusive footage captured by former Tedmund Paderewski - supposedly known images.
It shows the process of a real leader of the recently deceased man is being shrunk.
Author and explorer Piers Gibbon heads deep into the Amazon jungle to try to retrace journey Polanski and find the exact location.
Filmed and reconnect with the tribe today to search for Amazon Headshrinkers.
The Druids of Britain were remembered as mystic holy men holding the secrets of nature.
But the ancient sources including Julius Caesar himself accused.
Human sacrifice, even cannibalism.
Now, new discoveries are discovering secrets.
These pagan Celtic priests learned how a recent discovery of a masked man buried years ago with metal rods mysterious was linked to Druidic times.
Shrunken Heads - or Tsantsa - were marketed when foreigners began to be collected.
The exotic sights.
Today Tsantsa are estimated at a value of $ each.
There is no hard evidence.
People are killed to make today Tsantsa rumors suggest.
So old.
Shrunken heads are still negotiated with agencies sometimes cruelly hanged pirates often covered in tar and hung on the side in metal cage called a gibbet as a warning to hackers.
Some believe.
Touching Santana will upset his spirit to take over dreams offender and not to leave.
The peace that I take to be considered eccentric side of life.
My whole life-bread of headhunters.
Footage Shrunken Head is unique so excited I was trying to verify.
What kind of danger you were being held at a roadblock tribe Sharp, mouth ulcers malaria from malaria tablets cons, if you can not bear to take tablets, rumors of abductions, killings bugs .
And anthropologists warned us.
The tumor spreads.
We were looking sand headhunter.
Headhunters who could come to us first.
What you were most surprised when you travel?
In fact, finding a man who recognized the foot of someone!
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Then down the track old warrior shaman who could point to the screen.
It's my brother!
Tell me how you had to travel some of the complications and difficulties you've encountered along the way?
It took us two weeks.
Tucupi a village in the heart of the territory Shauri last step was six hours in a canoe.
For centuries shamans have exercised considerable power in the Shuar communities and continue to do so.
The fishing day shamans are divided into two types.
The damage inflicted to bewitch hat other sandhog.
The Cure To enter the supernatural world shamans commonly have a drink called NATEM hallucinogen also known as ayahuasca.
Bewitching shamans owning and controlling magic darts.
Known tsentsak that are invisible to a layman.
The disease is caused when one hires a Shuar shaman learned tsentsak in the body of an enemy.
The Shuar.
The evil must go to a shaman for curing the diagnosis and treatment.
While curing shaman is capable of treating a disease caused by witchcraft, he is powerless to cure diseases of the white man as colds, whooping cough, measles and diarrhea.
A curing shaman sucks magic darts body of a patient during the night because it is only in darkness.
He can not perceive drug induced visions.
The supernatural reality shamans most effective usual.
Those with the greatest number of tsentsak strong as we witnessed in the documentary where tsentsak not cause illness in a supernatural way a Shuar shaman could cure treat his patient by making a limpieza a ritual purification using smoke and an egg.
This unique method of healing works by running a raw egg on the person's body to be cleaned to get rid of evil spirits haunting smoke cast by shaman shaman allows.
Threaten evil spirits paste and remove.
Them the patient's body Most Shuar now regularly Western medicine, however, when Western medicine fails.
Turn many shamans shamans that have proven effective healers are held in high esteem in communities Shudder For centuries, people from the Shuar and neighborhood actuary killings were motivated by a desire for blood vengeance.
This commitment stems from the conviction.
Death That individual was most likely the product of witchcraft of enemies whose identities have been duly established by a shaman under the influence of a hallucinogenic drink During the past decades the family of a victim would track the enemy to kill him and perform a ritual ceremony Santana narrowing of the enemy's head coach.
They believed.
Avenging spirit that the victim may be trapped inside Santana power itself could.
Then be derived.
The vengeful spirit who could.
So be persuaded not to carry out more massacres late.
Euro century, the American gold-seekers and explorers in the Amazon were eager to acquire Shuar.
Shrunken Heads as exotic curiosities and precious Shush growing exchanged easily searched cons of rifles and machetes.
This "head lead the arms trade" to a greater degree in raids and hunting head caused much bloodshed Head hunting and vendetta between shear has been suppressed by the Ecuadorian government in the Catholic and evangelical missionaries in the Amazon who decried.
These brutal murders and rituals Santana It is generally accepted.
This head is most striking practice Shula However, as the American anthropologist Steven Frankenstein said all likelihood.
Shuar who have shrunk their heads or held ceremonies for tsantsa years perhaps it does not.
That.
These practices have disappeared in May Shuar century are no longer fighting amongst themselves.
They or.
Their old enemy but Achuar.
They are currently rising up against the Ecuadorian government and multinational mining companies.
They believe to operate.
Natural resources of their ancestral land of many Shuar have said.
That.
They are ready to take up arms to protect.
Their territory Shuar politicized as Marcelino Chumpi Shuar Nation want to be known as people who have always defended.
Their territory.
Their rights and who will stop at nothing to achieve.
This moment.
That.
There is a war Chumpi explains Shuar would be able to Tsantsa.
They will to dominate the enemy is our way So.
There will always Tsantsa As noted in Chumpi tsantsa documentary is a light.
Who says we can not defeat us because.
This is.
What we do to our enemies Chumpi's words send a serious warning to the government and multinationals as well when it comes to defending NATIVE POWER tsantsa Shuar territory is still alive.
Then climb a bank I remember the night fell I had to drive on Jeep two boards boat to take us across a river, a chance to take a river big scary when we actually got in.
Tucupi chick gave me drink like women welcoming tribe to plants by chewing and spitting.
Them in a pot it begins to ferment in the hot sun and in a few days, it has a surprising kick of a classic.
Things with the film is to have to do.
Things again for so cameraman can get a better angle, it was hot I was.
Thirsty we did.
Three transports children Sh.
I thought it was funny.
I had to go relax in a hammock for an hour.
What do you hope people will learn by watching the show I hope people learn and preshrinking is made.
What does this mean for society.
Who considered it normal to cut someone's head and skull Smash boiling the head to make small but deep-rooted cultural reasons that explain Shuar did.
This is to frighten the Spanish conquistadors and establish a reputation as fierce warriors comic moments during shipment We drive deep into territory Shudder on a road.
This was not completed full of paranoia I drove past a line of sharpened stakes of drool dripping fresh blood red down.
Them Oh my God I Thought Heads on spikes!
I stopped and we were ready to shoot or flee.
Then we realized.
These are just painted red sweepers surveyors Road Another Sidenote interesting.
What my new camera has lovely facial recognition software.
Who now admits.
Shrunken Heads and focuses on.
Author and explorer Piers Gibbon heads deep into the Amazon jungle to try to retrace journey rediscovering Bielawski exact location.
This scene was filmed and reconnect with the tribe today after a series of setbacks Gibbon finally gets a clue striking.
Who leads on a difficult path Tukupi village where he finds an aging warrior last of his generation who could provide answers to the mystery once and for all process * First HEADSHRINKING back of the head is open and the skin is cut free the skull is taken care not to damage the facial features so that the skull and flesh are still removed from the skin is boiled in water for half an hour longer and the hair may Fall Out * After been dried in the sun's skin is turned inside out and any unwanted tissue is scraped skin is formed into a bag shape and hot stones are used to burn the fat inside * of hot sand is added to achieve grease in hard to reach places such as the nose and lips taker massage skin to help dry the head and produce shape of the head again * process is repeated and can take up to six days until the head is a quarter of its original size * warrior must now be safer.
There was no attack of revenge Soul Eyes are sewn prevent death victim mind to look outside and wooden pegs are placed.
With lips and tied together with string.
The soul ceases to ask death for revenge * warrior is now safe while inside the soul remain in an abyss of rare archival footage shows the process of narrowing of a human head Shuar engaged in.
This practice to make victims powerless to avenge Poor Dr Nick.
Dr Nick if he had not taken his job at FedEx, or we started to believe.
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