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Post #136229 by ZebraTiki on Tue, Jan 18, 2005 3:55 PM

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"After death the heads were very often removed and kept with families and clans as that direct link."

I will never complain about dusting the frames of family photographs again.

I didn't read anything about the preserved heads being "smoked" ... is that the typical way they were preserved?