Indigenous group call for shrunken heads repatriation — BBC News The collection at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford predominantly came from the Ecuadorian Shuar people.

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Shrunken heads, long charged with ritual meaning, finally get scientific attention The Amazon's Shuar nation teams up with scientists to authenticate shrunken heads, or tsantsas—and one day bring them home

"Exoticized and coveted by Western collectors, hundreds of #tsantsas sit in museums and private homes worldwide. Lequi and his community want them back."

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