Headhunting was an important part of Dayak culture.

Headhunting was an important part of Dayak culture, in particular to the Iban and Kenyah.

Headhunting was practised in historic times in parts of China, India, Nigeria, Nuristan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Borneo, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Micronesia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Mesoamerica, Southwestern United States and the Amazon Basin, as well as among certain tribes of the Celts, the West Germanic peoples, the Norse and Scythians of ancient Europe.

Headhunting was practised by many Austronesian people in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Headhunting was practised among Sumba people until early 20th century.

Headhunting was not motivated primarily by cannibalism, but the dead person's flesh was consumed.

Headhunting was a common practice among the Taiwanese aborigines.

Headhunting is the practice of taking the head of a killed adversary, for ceremonial or magical purposes, or for reasons of prestige.

Headhunting acted as a catalyst for the cessation of personal and collective mourning for the community's dead.

Headhunting helped the warrior gain a religious concept called ' Keter ', which is similar to the Malay term ' Semangat ' and means Soul / spirit substance.

Headhunting is the practice of taking and preserving a person's head after killing them.

Headhunting has been a practice among the Naga tribes of India and Myanmar.

* Headhunting, the practice of literally taking a person's head after killing them

Headhunting has at one time or another existed among most of the peoples of Melanesia, including New Guinea.

Headhunting has occurred in many regions of the world.

Headhunting, which once proved to be popular among the Nocte, has been banned since 1991.

( See Headhunting ) They were known to be fierce fighters as observed in the case of the Wushe Incident in which the Atayal fought the Japanese.

Upon discovering about the historical enmity between the Tagahas and the Bundu-Liwan during the Headhunting days, Mat Salleh began his campaign of " divide and rule " to sow the seeds of disunity.

Headhunting may be allowed in this punishment ritual even when it is not allowed in normal play.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

The feathered lance was still above his head.

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Mercifully, it was still open.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

Miraculously, the bottle was still in my hand, foam still geysering over my ( luckily ) waterproof watch.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

The laces were broken at the bottom of the eyelets but there was still a bow knot at the top.

The marine was still.

Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

Everyone is ambivalent about his profession, if he has practised it long enough, but there were still moments when he loved the stage and all those unseen people out there, who might cheer you or boo you, but that was largely, though not entirely, up to you.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.

According to Pausanias ( 6. 18. 6 ), Anaximenes was " the first who practised the art of speaking extemporaneously.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.

* Primogeniture was not used — rather, in the early days, the imperial house practised something resembling a system of rotation.

Fiorello La Guardia was raised an Episcopalian and practised that religion all his life.

His first article, La Censure en Angleterre, was an attempt to account for the ' extraordinary and illogical ' moral censorship of plays and novels then practised in Britain.

Chrysostom regarded the whole phenomenon of ' speaking in tongues ' as not only something that was not practised in his own day, but was even obscure.

Cooking proper, as opposed to roasting, requires the boiling of water or oil in a receptacle, and was practised at least since the 10th millennium BC with the introduction of pottery.

Hesiod practised various styles of traditional verse, including gnomic, hymnic, genealogical and narrative poetry, but he was not able to manipulate them all fluently.

Medical knowledge was preserved and practised in many monastic institutions, which often had a hospital attached.

On these trips, he sought to engage with Canadians through various ceremonies and events ; he was keenly interested in his role as Chief Scout of Canada, and, in preparation for his kicking of the opening ball in the 1946 Grey Cup final, practised frequently on the grounds of the royal and viceroyal residence, Rideau Hall.

Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 – 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.

The Babylonians developed a system which was recorded in the famous Code of Hammurabi, c. 1750 BC, and practised by early Mediterranean sailing merchants.

It has been suggested that there is " evidence showing the wedding custom was practised by gypsies in England, Scotland " as well as by African Americans and other groups.

After her return to Earth, Guanyin was said to have stayed for a few years on the island of Mount Putuo where she practised meditation and helped the sailors and fishermen who got stranded.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.