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Although headhunting and cannibalism have been practically eradicated, in the past they occurred in many parts of the country as part of ritual practices.
For example, in 1901, on Goaribari Island in the Gulf of Papua, a missionary, Harry Dauncey, found 10, 000 skulls in the island ’ s Long Houses.
According to the writer Marianna Torgovnick, " The most fully documented instances of cannibalism as a social institution come from New Guinea, where head-hunting and ritual cannibalism survived, in certain isolated areas, into the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and still leave traces within certain social groups.
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