When Europeans arrived in New Zealand, they discovered shrunken heads -- the ones with intricate tattoos were particularly fetching. ...
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... The (quite recently local) Maoris soon cottoned on to the fact that tattooed shrunken heads were worth a premium with collectors. ...
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... So after capturing prisoners, they'd first carefully tattoo their faces, before decapitating them, and doing the whole shrinking thing.
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... Hard not to respect the fact that they don't really get into apology spasms about this heritage, even now, after Christianization. ...
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... "OK, yes, I guess that stuff was bad ... but you have to admit it was cool." "Our private museum collection says 'yes'."
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