In many places, entire headhunting expeditions were organized, and in some places entire populations of smaller islands disappeared.
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In many places, entire headhunting expeditions were organized, and in some places entire populations of smaller islands disappeared.
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According to some, in remote places it has not died out to this day, despite the harsh punishments imposed by the colonizers and despite missionary work.
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From these skull cults, in many places in Melanesia - in the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, New Guinea and the Philippines - the gruesome custom of headhunting and cannibalism developed, which in some places persisted until the 1950s.
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In some places, the hair is left on the skulls, and
the flesh from the face is removed and replaced with a clay face.
Elsewhere, the entire head is smoked and the face is
covered with pitch to preserve the features.
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In many places, the bones are cleaned a day after death and placed in special sacred places (e.g. in a house of spirits).
Jaws or even whole skulls are worn by widows or
"mourners" on a string around their necks. In general, they pay
special attention to skulls - also because of the belief that the spirit of the
deceased resides in the skull.
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O. Johnson reports that on the island of Vao they believe that the soul separates from the body in the ground and goes to "heaven" deep in the earth.
Therefore, they bury the elderly alive and celebrate
the event by dancing on the fresh grave. It happens that some of the
unfortunate buried ones dig themselves up, but they are buried again.
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Funeral customs in different parts of Oceania vary widely and are sometimes very unusual for our concepts.
In some places, the bodies are buried wrapped in a
squatting position, in others they are burned, and in still other places they
are fed to their protectors - sharks.
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The residents of Sagada are nice and friendly people, like most Filipinos. However, they could not tell me why some of the coffins were open, with bones protruding from them.
Perhaps they were looted by robbers, or wild
animals.
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Janin Klemenčič (to be continued)
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