Cannibalism and Head Hunting

Maybek: In societies where we do find both head hunting and cannibalism, you can almost see the baton being passed from one to the other. C k meek: This right of eating a small piece of flesh of the skull is of particular interest in proving one purpose at least, of cannibalism had the religious object of destroying the dead enemy soul. The chawai brought all captured heads to the chief priest. Heads were boiled, the priest ate a piece of the flesh, and the skulls were deposited in the sacred hut.