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HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. See also:Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with See also:Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)  , the upper portion of the See also:body in See also:man, consisting of the See also:skull with its integuments and contents, &c., connected with the See also:trunk by the See also:neck (see See also:ANATOMY, SKULL and See also:BRAIN); also the anterioror fore See also: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 as the uppermost part, hence the leading, See also:chief portion of anything . HEAD-See also:HUNTING, or HEAD-SNAPPING, as the Dutch See also:call it, a See also:custom once prevalent among all See also:Malay races and surviving even to-See also:day among the See also:Dyaks (q.v.) of See also:Borneo and elsewhere . See also:Martin de Rada, provincial of the See also:Augustinians, reported its existence in Luzon (Philippine Islands) as See also:early as 1577 . The practice is believed to have had its origin in religious motives, the See also:worship of skulls being universal among the See also:Malays . Severe repressive See also:measures have led to its decrease . Among the Igorrotes all that remains is the See also:dance, accompanied by singing, around the See also:bare See also:pole on which the head was formerly fixed . With the Ilongotes a bridegroom must bring his See also:bride a number of heads, those of Christians being preferred . The chief examples of head-hunters are the Was, a See also:hill-tribe on the See also:north-eastern frontier of See also:India, and the Nagas and Kukis of See also:Assam . See Bock, Headhunters of Borneo (1881); W . H . See also:Furness, See also:Home See also:Life of Borneo Head-hunters (See also:Philadelphia, 1902); T .

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Hodson, Head-hunting in Assam," in Folk-See also:Lore, xx . 2 . 132 .

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