Tribe: Jivaroan people, Shuar, Achuar, Huambisa Origin: South America, Peru, Ecuador Approx Age: Early-mid​ 20th Century Materials: Human / Animal head Dimensions cm: 8 Tall Shipping: Tracked, signed and fully insured Item Number: 0854 Provenance: Acquired from an old deceased UK private collection. A real shrunken head, everyone I have shown this to is unsure of exactly if it could be a human or a monkey head. All I can tell you is that it is real skin and hair and I purchased it from an auction selling off a UK collectors​ estate. Selling with no reserve price. A shrunken head is a severed and specially prepared human head that is used for trophy, ritual, or trade purposes. Headhunting has occurred in many regions of the world, but the practice of head-shrinking​ has only been documented in the northwestern region of the Amazon rainforest. The only tribes known to have shrunken human heads are of the Jivaroan tribes. These include the Shuar, Achuar, Huambisa and Aguaruna tribes, found in Ecuador and Peru. The Shuar call a shrunken head a tsantsa, also transliterated tzantza. Many tribe leaders would show off their heads to scare enemies.