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See also: body in See also: man, consisting of the See also: skull with its integuments and contents, &c., connected with the trunk by the neck (see ANATOMY, SKULL and See also: BRAIN); also the anterioror fore See also: part of other animals
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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, chief portion of anything
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HEAD-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
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See also: Martin de Rada, provincial of the
See also: Augustinians, reported its existence in Luzon (Philippine Islands) as early as 1577
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The practice is believed to have had its origin in religious motives, the worship of skulls being universal among the See also: Malays
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Severe repressive See also: measures have led to its decrease
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Among the Igorrotes all that remains is the dance, accompanied by singing, around the See also: bare See also: pole on which the head was formerly fixed
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With the Ilongotes a bridegroom must bring his bride a number of heads, those of Christians being preferred
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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
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See Bock, Headhunters of Borneo (1881); W
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Furness, Home See also: Life of Borneo Head-hunters (See also: Philadelphia, 1902); T
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C . Hodson, Head-hunting in Assam," in Folk-See also: Lore, xx
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