shrunken head
tsantsa

"It's the kind of thing you put next to your shrunken head."

By the time this case gets to trial, he'll be nothing more than a shrunken head.

People used to go to museums to look at shrunken heads or something like that.

It was the shrunken head Melody had shown me the day we'd spent together at the beach.

"She must have been a good person," he said as he held up the shrunken head.

A shrunken head, precious until now, a symbol of Daddy.

His holy symbol is three shrunken heads tied together by the hair.

Lorrie and I were talking about how to make a shrunken head doll.

System is based on the old tsanstsaythe Indian shrunken heads.

Opening it up, he discovers the shrunken head of a middle-aged man.

The shrunken head at the Israeli museum, however, turns out to be legit.

Ring says later on, shrunken heads were made more for trade with tourists than to steal a rival´s power.

I put the shrunken head in my pocket, smiled at Minassian, and left.

He stared at the padlock in horror, as though it were a shrunken head.

The shrunken head had no significant impact on the story line and was only mentioned to supplement the storyline.

Shrunken heads would clash with my decor, so I suggested they put them outside the village.

The other makes a beeline for the shrunken heads.

His face looked compressed, leathery, like a shrunken head Lucas had seen on television.

A part of him had expected shrunken heads.

There were shrunken heads atop pointed spears around the throne.

Gein always joked that he had a collection of shrunken heads.

The children used to pick on him because of a scene in the film Beetlejuice featuring a character's shrunken head.

Maybe shrunken heads dangling from the ceiling, or walls covered with Indonesian art.

Snakes, tarantulas, shrunken heads and a crawling hand were also part of the act.

On display are objects such as ceremonial masks, ceramics, and even a shrunken head.

The Shuar call a shrunken head a tsantsa, also transliterated tzantza.

In the distant past, the Aguarunas engaged in the practice of shrinking human heads to make tsantsa.

The Shuar are popularly depicted in a wide variety of travelogue and adventure literature because of Western fascination with their former practice of shrinking human heads (tsantsa).

Although non-Shuar characterized these shrunken heads (tsantsa) as trophies of warfare, Shuar insisted that they were not interested in the heads themselves and did not value them as trophies.

Leonard Clark, who traveled to the region in 1948, however, said that he saw a shrunken head, called a "tsantsa," used in a ceremony and then stuffed in an old earthenware pot that was placed in the thatched ceiling of the house.