Shrunken Heads and Drinking Vessels Made From Human Skulls
Posted 02-08-2015 at 07:18 PM by Happy in Wyoming
The human skull seems to have been the most commonly used body part for thousands of years. It has been used as a sign of conquest, ritual, and, in at least one well-documented case, for amusement.
''In 19th century England, the poet Lord Byron used a skull his gardener had found at Newstead Abbey as a drinking vessel. "There had been found by the gardener, in digging, a skull that had probably belonged to some jolly monk or friar of the Abbey, about the time it was demonasteried. Observing it to be of giant size, and in a perfect state of preservation, a strange fancy seized me of having it set and mounted as a drinking cup. I accordingly sent it to town, and it returned with a very high polish and of a mottled colour like tortoiseshell". Byron even wrote a darkly witty drinking poem as if inscribed upon it, “Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull”.[SIZE=2][10][/SIZE] The cup, filled with claret, was passed around "in imitation of the Goths of old", among the Order of the Skull that Byron founded at Newstead, "whilst many a grim joke was cut at its expense", Byron recalled to Thomas Medwin.''
Skull cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia#
There's another short article on the skull as a drinking vessel used in India.
Kapala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Should any find it of interest, I've appended two articles as well as a book on shrunken heads. The how and why of the custom are inextricably intertwined.
Shrunken head - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Shrunken Heads Work - HowStuffWorks
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0962515035/...3d61e8c17e23_S[/quote]
''In 19th century England, the poet Lord Byron used a skull his gardener had found at Newstead Abbey as a drinking vessel. "There had been found by the gardener, in digging, a skull that had probably belonged to some jolly monk or friar of the Abbey, about the time it was demonasteried. Observing it to be of giant size, and in a perfect state of preservation, a strange fancy seized me of having it set and mounted as a drinking cup. I accordingly sent it to town, and it returned with a very high polish and of a mottled colour like tortoiseshell". Byron even wrote a darkly witty drinking poem as if inscribed upon it, “Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull”.[SIZE=2][10][/SIZE] The cup, filled with claret, was passed around "in imitation of the Goths of old", among the Order of the Skull that Byron founded at Newstead, "whilst many a grim joke was cut at its expense", Byron recalled to Thomas Medwin.''
Skull cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia#
There's another short article on the skull as a drinking vessel used in India.
Kapala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Should any find it of interest, I've appended two articles as well as a book on shrunken heads. The how and why of the custom are inextricably intertwined.
Shrunken head - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Shrunken Heads Work - HowStuffWorks
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0962515035/...3d61e8c17e23_S[/quote]
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