Post #612897 by Wayfarer on Sun, Nov 6, 2011 6:13 AM

For what to do with the skull here's some ideas. This is an Orang Utan skull from the Monsopiad Cultural Village's Hall of skulls on Borneo with interesting work done on it-

Here's the 42 skulls Monsopiad took-

This illustrates how they dried the skulls, just imagine a pair of these flanking the entrance-

On 2011-08-15 09:34, bigbrotiki wrote:
Well, let's face it, simply hanging up a skeleton on the wall is not much more than Halloween decorating. It could be pirate-themed perhaps, but that ain't Tiki either.

To bring it more into the South Seas realm, I would disassemble it and just use the bones and the skull. To illustrate what I meant above with beads and feathers, here are some real examples of decorated ancestor heads from various islands in the South Pacific. Nice craft projects!:

Irian Jaya ancestor skull, Asmat

Marquesas Islands with wild boar tusks and shell eyes

Another, more elaborate Irian Jaya job. This one has some real Voodoo to it, I think!

This one from the Solomon Islands is a little too abstract maybe.

You can also build a little altar for it:

...or put it in a planter and let it rot, for added authenticity:

Then again, you might stick with the fez! :D

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[ Edited by: Wayfarer 2011-11-06 06:15 ]