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Head-hunters were mere daily episodes in Grits's existence, but water ...
A Far Country — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
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Head-hunters were mere daily episodes in Grits's existence, but water ...
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Head-hunters were mere daily episodes in Grits's existence, but water ...
A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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And all those imaginings are heightened by the difficulty of penetrating far inland, especially on the north-east coast, where the Malays and the river tribes of Dyaks or Head-hunters are eternally quarrelling.
Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Joseph Conrad 1890
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Head-hunters, song of; seen on board steamer; meeting an imaginary attack of; food of
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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[969] Furness, _Home Life of the Borneo Head-hunters_, p. 160 ff.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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[1676] Haddon, _Head-hunters_, pp. 42, 182 f.; on the sacredness of the head see Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed.,
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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[37] On the cult of skulls in the Torres Straits and Borneo see Haddon, _Head-hunters_, chap. xxiv.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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(_Head-hunters_, p. 358); compare W. Matthews, _Navaho
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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[1134] Batchelor, _The Ainu_, chap. x; Furness, _Home life of the Borneo Head-hunters_, p. 64 f.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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