The 3-minute film clip below is definitely not for the squeamish. It comes from a documentary called A Hole in the Head, made in 1998, and shows a Kisi medicine man performing the "operation of the skulls".
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Category: Anthropology • Medicine & Health
Posted on: February 13, 2008 5:41 PM, by Mo
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Amazing footage. Quite hard to watch - not just the procedure but the mishapen heads of the other patients. It's hard to believe that a simple headache could lead to such an operation.
3
Does not necessary have to be headache. I think in this case it's for a spiritual reason. The shape of the head is for a purpose.
4
Pretty ethnocentric. It's hard to believe this documentary was made only ten years ago.
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Amazing video, thanks so much. How on earth did you find it?
Posted by: Jonah | February 14, 2008 1:22 PM