[Morbid1973]

My fiance inherited a photo album from her older cousin's estate. I thought the members would like to see these. I can contribute at last.
On the back of the photos they have descriptions about the Niger or Nager head hunters of Burma. The other picture is of a dead Japanese soldier. Sorry if I put these in the wrong section.

[Morbid1973]

Sorry for the crappy quality.

[Morbid1973]

The description was misspelled on the back. They were the Naga tribe. This page talks about them.

http://www.burma-richard.org/2014/11...burma.html?m=1

[K53]

10th century behavior in the 20th century.

[Susan]

What did they do that for?

[FilRude]

That second photo makes for a helluva wind chime.

[kellyhound]

The taking of a head is symbolic of courage, and men who could not were dubbed as women or cows. There is nothing more glorious for a Naga than victory in battle by bringing home the severed head of an enemy."

weird to see kids as enemies though.

[crazy_farmgirl]

I found some info on these pictures. It says they took children's heads because they were seen as more valuable, in a sense. One child's head equalled many adult heads because children were harder to get to because they were protected by the parents. Here is the website that talks about these very photos posted!

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archi...ional_way.html

[Morbid1973]

Wow that is the same picture! The soldier this was inherited from also was a CBI
veteran. There are other pictures too from the area and other soldiers wearing the CBI patch on thier shoulder.Thanks Crazy_Farmgirl!

[murofhsirgo]

Thanks for the warning.. those indeed, appear to be youngsters. Crazy