SYSK Selects: How Shrunken Heads Work

Stuff You Should Know

• Episode: SYSK Selects: How Shrunken Heads Work
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss
• Duration: 00:58:42
• Published: 2017-09-02 21:53

In this week's SYSK Select episode, although U.S. museum collections are rife with counterfeits, shrunken heads are far from fiction. The Shuar tribe of Ecuador has shrunken heads for centuries. Learn the methodical process of shrinking a head and how they’re used in this episode.