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Jivaro

An American Indian people of the tropical forests of southeastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. They live by farming, hunting, fishing, and weaving; the Jivaro language belongs to the Andean-Equatorial family. They were formerly notorious for preserving the hair and shrunken skin of the heads of their enemies as battle trophies.
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As I listened to Palin, I was standing two cases away from the museum's most popular attraction, the exhibit of tsantsa, shrunken enemy heads made by the Shuar and other Jivaroan peoples of western Amazonia.
"I lost my head in Borneo": tourism and the refashioning of the ... by Gingging, Flory Ann Mansor; Conklin, Beth A.; Bacchilega, Cristina / Cultural Analysis
 
 
 
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