Show MUMMIFIED HEADS SCARCE Mummified heads of oC South American Indians belong to a tribe living on the slopes ot at the Andes near Quito in Ecuador once so easily purchased are becoming extremely scarce The head is only shrunk r ni to by the hes he s some natives iv secret being ln process thus r reduced known g from life lite size size nine nine or t ten n inches from tip of or chin to top of ot head head to to five Inches The curious thing thins is that the head can be reduced in this fashion without destroying destroying de- de the features These heads heads- some of ot which are of great antiquity antiquity- are now almost Impossible to procure Their sale Is forbidden by law as the large ur prices esIn they fetched ch tempted P Unscrupulous unscrupulous un Un- scrupulous Indians s to produce Od green re ones Vide Wide World orld Magazine |