See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is See also:

• COMMON

common to See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. See also:

• HAUPT, MORITZ (1808—1874)

Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with See also:

• LAT

Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)  , the upper portion of the See also:

• BODY

body in See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, consisting of the See also:

• SKULL

skull with its integuments and contents, &c., connected with the See also:

• TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

trunk by the See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck (see See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

ANATOMY, SKULL and See also:

• BRAIN (A.S. braegen)

BRAIN); also the anterioror fore See also:

• PART

part of other animals . The word is used in a large number of transferred and figurative senses, generally with reference to the position of the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head as the uppermost part, hence the leading, See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief portion of anything . HEAD-See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

HUNTING, or HEAD-SNAPPING, as the Dutch See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call it, a See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom once prevalent among all See also:

• MALAY

Malay races and surviving even to-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day among the See also:

• DYAKS, or DAYAKS

Dyaks (q.v.) of See also:

• BORNEO

Borneo and elsewhere . See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin de Rada, provincial of the See also:

• AUGUSTINIANS

Augustinians, reported its existence in Luzon (Philippine Islands) as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1577 . The practice is believed to have had its origin in religious motives, the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of skulls being universal among the See also:

• MALAYS

Malays . Severe repressive See also:

• MEASURES

measures have led to its decrease . Among the Igorrotes all that remains is the See also:

• DANCE
• DANCE (Fr. danse; of obscure origin, connected with Old High Ger. danson, to stretch)

dance, accompanied by singing, around the See also:

• BARE

bare See also:

• POLE (FAMILY)
• POLE, REGINALD (1500-1558)
• POLE, RICHARD DE LA (d. 1525)
• POLE, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

pole on which the head was formerly fixed . With the Ilongotes a bridegroom must bring his See also:

• BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

bride a number of heads, those of Christians being preferred . The chief examples of head-hunters are the Was, a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill-tribe on the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-eastern frontier of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, and the Nagas and Kukis of See also:

• ASSAM

Assam . See Bock, Headhunters of Borneo (1881); W . H . See also:

• FURNESS
• FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD (1833– )

Furness, See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

Home See also:

• LIFE

Life of Borneo Head-hunters (See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, 1902); T .

C . See also:

• HODSON, WILLIAM STEPHEN RAIKES (1821-1858)

Hodson, Head-hunting in Assam," in Folk-See also:

• LORE
• LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

Lore, xx . 2 . 132 .