Jivaro

The Mendez cousins on my father's side are over by the food, the little ones with their straight black mop tops and wooden-bowl haircuts, the adults having gone to great lengths to thicken and tease up their "Jivaro" hair.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

The seven cultures listed on Pinker's chart are the Jivaro, two branches of Yanomami, the Mae Enga, Dugum Dani, Murngin, Huli, and Gebusi.

Christopher Ryan: Pinker's Dirty War on Prehistoric Peace Christopher Ryan 2012

The seven cultures listed on Pinker's chart are the Jivaro, two branches of Yanomami, the Mae Enga, Dugum Dani, Murngin, Huli, and Gebusi.

Christopher Ryan: Pinker's Dirty War on Prehistoric Peace Christopher Ryan 2012

If advertising wants to avoid a Jivaro-like downsizing, it needs to listen to the clock: It's ticking away.

Why is digital advertising so lousy? Industry is too smug to innovate. Frederic Filloux 2010

According to a 1950 article in Der Spiegel, Ignatz Wegener, a prisoner in the Buchenwald medical ward, helped prepare the heads after reading about the process in a book about the South American Jivaro tribe.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

But then you spy the Jivaro Shrunken Head (it's real, it's the size of a tennis ball); conjoined piglets in a jar; an assload of taxidermy, including a gorgeous zebra head; giant's rings ...

Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives 2002

A recent beautiful example of a writer, in this case an anthropologist, locating a native culture more or less at the last minute and being adequate — intellectually, morally, and physically — to grasping something of it just as it disappears is Philippe Descola in his smart, sad, elegant book The Spears of Twilight, about the Achuar, a Jivaro people of the Ecuadorean Amazon: a book to read and reread.

Now Voyager McMurtry, Larry 2000

In the lowlands of Ecuador, Jivaro warriors traditionally used infusions of guayusa to purify themselves and their families before shrinking the heads of their slain enemies.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In the lowlands of Ecuador, Jivaro warriors traditionally used infusions of guayusa to purify themselves and their families before shrinking the heads of their slain enemies.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Yet, when all is said and done, the patent will be taken out by Hoffmann-La Roche or Monsanto or Eli Lilly - not by the Jivaro, not even by Brazil.

Chapter 9 1991