... Solomon Islands items buried with body Contact European Decapitation deposition and context of head after Inhumation Mementos or relics Mummification Societal considerations cohesion Russia Skull pits ancestors Marquesas Islands French Polynesia trophy skulls decorated skulls Several museum...

...This chapter utilizes ethnographic reports and physical studies of skulls from the Torres Strait Islands to differentiate a decorated skull of a relative from a head collected as a trophy. Ethnographic accounts of mortuary and headhunting practices included skulls of relatives naturally defleshed...