shrunken head
Miniaturized human skull
A shrunken head is a human head that has been reduced to roughly fist-size through a preservation process, traditionally practiced by certain South American peoples as a war trophy or ritual object.
The term extends figuratively to anything grotesquely miniaturized or to describe someone whose thinking seems diminished: The department has become a shrunken head of its former self.
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- ritualCeremonial set of actions
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