Work by Raymond E. Mingst is part of the exhibit opening at the Curious Matter gallery in Jersey City. (Courtesy of Curious Matter) No, they're not really shrunken heads or the mummified remains ...

Working in the security department for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nearly 40 years, John Barelli wrangled royalty, naked visitors, falling statues and shrunken human heads. He recounts ...

No one ever told me about the shrunken heads hidden away at the South Florida Museum. Real heads that used to be on the bodies of real people — that’s a little creepy when you think about it.

THE future of one of Oxford's most popular artefacts - the shrunken heads at the Pitt Rivers Museum - could be in doubt. The South American heads draw hundreds of visitors to the Victorian museum ...

I’d heard that viewing the collection was like entering a 19th-century Wunderkammer, and that it had an impressive collection of shrunken heads. Close Sign In ...

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

Shrunken human heads, complete with skin and hair, were made by the Shuar and Achuar people of Ecuador and Peru up until the 1960s. The practice of preparing the heads, known as tsantsas ...

The South American heads draw hundreds of visitors to the Victorian museum in South Parks Road - and are particularly popular with children. Curator Laura Peers is undertaking an "informal" review ...