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Date:      Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:43:16 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        lbland <lbland@vvi.com>
Subject:   Re: head-hunters on the list?
Message-ID:  <20050205041316.GB39140@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <42044608.1040400@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <20050203170952.6800.qmail@smasher.org> <5E896F70-7612-11D9-BC58-0030659A531A@vvi.com> <42044608.1040400@pacific.net.sg>

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On Saturday,  5 February 2005 at 12:05:28 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lbland wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Atom Smasher wrote:
>>
>>> are there any head-hunters on this list?
>>
>> I think they are extinct. I'm a vegetarian, does that help :-)
>
> Actually not really. Head hunting tribes live some islands away from
> here.

Due east, FWIW.  The Ibans of Sarawak (and presumably elsewhere in
Borneo).  I've visited long houses with bags of skulls and shrunken heads.q

They last practised this custom in the Second World War, when the area
was invaded by Japanese.

Greg
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