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Ecuador 8a-Shrunken Heads
Hmm, well not quite sure where this page went to, but a couple of days ago we visited the main Banco Populaire Museum in Cuenca, and followed this up on Monday 28 july with a visit to IngaParga, the main Ecuadorian Inca site.
The Museum was spectacular. This is a huge building with exhibits on 4 floors. It cost $6 each for entry (half price if you look young enough to be a student!), so off wen went.
The exhibits are well arranged, and have a large number of exhibits from all of the indiginous Indian tribes.
These include artifacts, musical instruments, village exhibitions, and a variety of Shrunken Heads - real human heads which have been shrunk by Indians. These are usually revenge killings on members of opposing tribes - the explanation said that the indians did not take or shrink the heads of white men (the Conquistadores), as they regarded whites as `an inferior people`.
Very intersting to see, and only slightly gruesome. There were 5 or six heads in all, perfectly preserved and well detailed.
All in all, a very good value exhibition.
This was followed up by a visit to IngaParga, which turned out to be quite expensive for what was a relatively small site. Although we could have stayed for 4 hours and caught the late bus back, we had completed the whole site in less than an hour, so we caught the 1pm bus back home. All in all, this was a disappointment.
The Museum was spectacular. This is a huge building with exhibits on 4 floors. It cost $6 each for entry (half price if you look young enough to be a student!), so off wen went.
The exhibits are well arranged, and have a large number of exhibits from all of the indiginous Indian tribes.
These include artifacts, musical instruments, village exhibitions, and a variety of Shrunken Heads - real human heads which have been shrunk by Indians. These are usually revenge killings on members of opposing tribes - the explanation said that the indians did not take or shrink the heads of white men (the Conquistadores), as they regarded whites as `an inferior people`.
Very intersting to see, and only slightly gruesome. There were 5 or six heads in all, perfectly preserved and well detailed.
All in all, a very good value exhibition.
This was followed up by a visit to IngaParga, which turned out to be quite expensive for what was a relatively small site. Although we could have stayed for 4 hours and caught the late bus back, we had completed the whole site in less than an hour, so we caught the 1pm bus back home. All in all, this was a disappointment.
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