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This primer on shrunken head preparation is, of course, gruesome, but also somewhat... fascinating. Because the process sounds so involved, like Martha Stewart trussing a turkey for Thanksgiving, these guys really have devotion to their craft:

The skin is boiled in plain water for no more than about half an hour; this reduces the skin by about half. The trophy is then dried on a stick thrust in the ground. Then the skin is turned inside out and all the flesh is scraped off with a knife. The tsantsa is then turned right side out and the slit in the rear is sewn together with string made from the inner bark of the Kumai palm.