headhunting
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thumb|250px|Digital painting of a Mississippian culture|Mississippian-era priest, with a ceremonial flint mace and a severed head, based on a repousse copper plate.
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thumb|250px|Digital painting of a Mississippian culture|Mississippian-era priest, with a ceremonial flint mace and a severed head, based on a repousse copper plate.
Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim. More portable body parts (such as ear, nose, or scalp) can be taken as trophies, instead. Headhunting has been practiced by many cultures throughout the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “headhunting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.