Posted by Steve | Posted in Carving Tools and Techniques | Posted on 08-05-2010
Tags: wood carving heads
How do you make a shrunken head?
I know how to preserve hides and skin. I am mainly wondering how exactly the skin and skull gets shrunk? Is it a wood carving for the small skull or something else?
according to TheStraightDope:
“They prepared the heads by slicing down the back from crown to neck, then peeling off the skin “just as a stocking is removed from a foot.” The skin was cooked in special pots, after which the incision and other openings were sewn up or plugged. A long process of taxidermy followed in which the head was tanned and stuffed, resulting in a trophy that faithfully reproduced the appearance of the original head, only one-third the size.”
From what I understand, they don’t shrink the skull- they just remove it.
Ebony hard wood carved head
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