Dr Robert Storrie, our keeper of Anthropology draws on his fieldwork in Amazonia to discuss the meaning of the three shrunken heads in the Horniman's collection. What did they mean to the Shuar People who made them, and what do they mean now to their descendants? What have they meant to museums and their visitors over the past century, and can we find a way of displaying them in the future that does justice to Amazonian understandings of the world?
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Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000309?id=EVENT501498
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