The Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art was founded in 1919. The museum features unique pieces of art, ancient artifacts and attractions that draw people from all over to Shawnee. "We have a number of tours.

A shrunken head artifact that has been on display for decades at a Georgia university and was featured as a prop in the 1979 John Huston film "Wise Blood," has been ... told The Art Newspaper.

A shrunken head that was used in the 1979 dark comedy Wise Bloods was recently authenticated and confirmed to have been real human remains.

In July 2020, the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford removed its shrunken heads and human remains from public display. (Hugh Warwick/Pitt Rivers Museum, the University of Oxford via AP) ...

South American shrunken heads, sometimes called tsantsas, are common in museum collections but it can be difficult to tell whether they are authentic—that is, made from real human remains.

The indigenous Shuar, native to Ecuador and Peru, have been portrayed as headhunting savages. This tribe no longer performs the ritual of shrinking heads, a practice largely misunderstood ...

Oxford Museum Removes Controversial Shrunken Heads Display Which 'Reinforced Racist Thinking' The decision comes as part of a museum-wide effort to "decolonize" the collections on display. By.