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Post by diggergig on Apr 7, 2008 18:14:55 GMT
I've spent ages looking for something online to back up this old cartoon of his, which says:
'Fantastic Burial of Congo Chief: The body is blown up several times its natural size and stuffed with all the personal belongings of the departed.'
I can find no evidence of such a ritual recorded online; not that I am questioning its validity - I would just like to know the name of the tribe and a little more of the details of how the body is 'blown up.'
Does anyone have a handy link to any such thing?
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Post by Meercat on Apr 7, 2008 18:21:50 GMT
I've spent ages looking for something online to back up this old cartoon of his, which says: 'Fantastic Burial of Congo Chief: The body is blown up several times its natural size and stuffed with all the personal belongings of the departed.' I can find no evidence of such a ritual recorded online; not that I am questioning its validity - I would just like to know the name of the tribe and a little more of the details of how the body is 'blown up.' Does anyone have a handy link to any such thing? I've looked, and can find nothing at all about it. How they did it? After my experience last week, they probably got a takeaway from my local Indian restaurant..... |
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Post by diggergig on Apr 7, 2008 20:06:47 GMT
Ah well, thanks for looking. None of the websites I seached about the man himself had anything. The cartoon is printed in an article about the man, about which it was said that each cartoon was based as solidly on fact as he could discern. It shows some tribesmen sat around a huge figure of their dead chief, presumibly within which were the posessions of life.
Good job we don't do that over here - how big would some people end up being?
Oh yeah, shrunken heads are everywhere online - but blown up chieftens? Forget it!
EDIT: Gave myself the idea of googling 'blown up cheiftens.' Ziltch on the subject above, but lots of hits for an Irish folk band, with regard to people being 'blown away' by their music.
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Post by Dippy on Apr 8, 2008 9:06:43 GMT
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Post by diggergig on Apr 9, 2008 19:24:03 GMT
Hey thanks - will give it a read.
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