Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

TM Tipsy McStagger Tiki Socialite HELL Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Posts: 3685	TM Tipsy McStagger Posted posted on Mon, Dec 3, 2012 7:42 AM On 2012-11-29 17:13, kustomculture73 wrote: On 2012-11-29 16:49, nui 'umi 'umi wrote: Hello K73, Nice Shrunken head. Are the real McCoy legal to possess in the U.S.? If So,please tell us what you know of it's provenance. Mahalo, David They actually are legal to own in the United States,but many of them are in museums.The law states that it is not legal to deal in living organs and tissue.The shrunken head falls into the artifact category,so it is a grey area.This one came back from South America in the 50's from a service member.It was then given as a gift about 10 years ago to the person that I acquired it from.When closely inspected,you can see eyelashes,whiskers above the lips,hairs in the nostrils and other fine details. i'm thinking this is the head of a chimp or monkey... not buying the human head theory.

On 2012-11-29 17:13, kustomculture73 wrote:

On 2012-11-29 16:49, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:
Hello K73, Nice Shrunken head. Are the real McCoy legal to possess in the U.S.? If So,please tell us what you know of it's provenance.
Mahalo,
David

They actually are legal to own in the United States,but many of them are in museums.The law states that it is not legal to deal in living organs and tissue.The shrunken head falls into the artifact category,so it is a grey area.This one came back from South America in the 50's from a service member.It was then given as a gift about 10 years ago to the person that I acquired it from.When closely inspected,you can see eyelashes,whiskers above the lips,hairs in the nostrils and other fine details.

i'm thinking this is the head of a chimp or monkey... not buying the human head theory.

Post #660436 by Tipsy McStagger on Mon, Dec 3, 2012 7:42 AM