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kk many cook and cat the flesh of their captives, reserving 

 tlic bones as trophies. 7 And another Mexican race, &quot; the 

 Chichimecs, carried with them a bone on which, when they 

 killed an enemy, they marked a notch, as a record of the 

 number each had slain. 7 



The meaning of trophy-taking and its social effects, be 

 ing recognized, let us consider in groups the various 

 forms of it. 



350. Of parts cut from the bodies of the slain, heads 

 are among the commonest; probably as being the most 

 unmistakable proofs of victory. 



AYe need not go far afield for examples of the practice 

 and its motives. The most familiar of Looks contains 

 them. In Judges vii. 25, AVC read &quot; And they took two 

 princes of the Midianitcs, Oreb and Zeeb: and they slew 

 Oreb upon the rock Orel), and Zeeb they slew at the 

 wine-press of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought 

 the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side 

 Jordan.&quot; Similarly, the decapitation of Goliath by 

 David was followed by carrying his head to Jerusalem. 

 The practice existed in Egypt too. At Abou Simbel, 

 Rameses II., is represented as holding a bunch of a dozen 

 heads. And if, by races so superior, heads were taken 

 home as trophies, we shall not wonder at finding the cus 

 tom of thus taking them among inferior races all over 

 the globe. By the Ghichimecs in Xorth America &quot; the 

 heads of the slain were placed on poles and paraded 

 through their villages in token of victory, the inhabitants 

 meanwhile dancing round them.&quot; In South America, by 

 the Abipones, heads arc brought back from battle &quot; tied 

 to their saddles;&quot; and the Mundrucus &quot; ornament their 

 rude and miserable cabanas with these horrible trophies.&quot; 

 Of Malayo-Polynesians having a like habit, may be named 

 the &quot;NTew Zealanders. Skulls of enemies are preserved as 

 trophies by the natives on the Congo; and &quot; the skull and 



