On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:11:17 -0500, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

No doubt there are active or were active shrunken head hunters -
Two tribe collect from each other.. But the book was confused with
them the author was photographing the members of the tribes and
gathering facial designs in a trace of whence they came from...

Martin

That sounds like the Dayak tribes in both the northern and southern
parts in Kalimantan.

There is an old guy, been kicking around the oil business in Asia for
years, married to a Dayak woman and they sometimes visit her family
and stay in the long house. He said that there are still heads hanging
in the rafters :-)




On 10/25/2015 2:40 AM, John B. wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:10:08 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

"John B." wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Maybe it will start a trend? Kill the criminals, and they will
never
commit another crime.

Yes, if nothing else executing criminals thins the ranks somewhat.

Singapore, for example, has a law that for possession of certain
drugs in an amount of more than a very small specific amount the
penalty is hanging. Under Singapore law a condemned person may
appeal
to the President of the Republic who may, issue a pardon, require a
re-trial, or simply ignore the request.

For possession of a smaller than the specified amount it is a term
in
prison and at last look the prisoners still slept on the floor of
their cell, on a straw mat.

Singapore has relatively little crime. and drug use is rated as one
of
the lowest in the world. For both cannibals and opiates the rate is
0.004%. The U.S. rates 13.7 and 0.57% I believe.


They have to keep the cannibals in solitary confinement. ;-)

I read a story by a British jungle operative in Indonesia who wrote
that the tribes accused each other of cannibalism to scare off
unwanted outsiders. The so-called cannibal tribe that captured him
treated him well when they found out he was fighting the Communists.

-jsw


To the best of my knowledge the British army operated only in the
northern side of Kalimantan Island, or Borneo as they called it. I had
an ex Gurkha officer work for me that served there, possibly as an
intelligence officer as the British Army had sent him to language
school and he spoke perfect Indonesian. He said that they certainly
did penetrate the Indonesian side of the island but the tribes of
Borneo/Kalimantan are famous as head hunters.

In Iran Jaya there are certainly a lot of tribes that still, likely,
eat people but I'm not sure if they would have known what a communist
is.

--
cheers,

John B.

--
cheers,

John B.