The coolest shrunken head "sat nav" ever must be this one from "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhguwCSnIZc&feature=related
Bought one for my dad when I was in High School after he finished his 32'. He kept it and has run it in every car he has built since.
You know the origins of shrunken heads? One day this guy walked into a Voodoo bar. He met this nice girl in there. They got talking and after a few drinks he asked her "hey, how about a little head". I Apparently she got the wrong idea. I find them curiously cool, but very clique.
I need to give mine a haircut because that straight hair hangs down and blocks the glass eyeball I have in the old windshield hole of my '36 pickup. Is he gonna ask for a manicure if I do that?
I actually owned a period one for about an hour. When were those hot stuff...maybe 1959, or so?? I actually do not remember how or where I acquired the thing, odd because even if it only cost a quarter that would have represented a financial challenge to me in those days. I was visiting my Grandparents in Mississippi, and for some reason they immediately decided it was far too evil/ugly/heathenish/dirty-looking/whatever for an impressionable child, and it was summarily confiscated and never seen again. I still mourn.
You do the exact same process that was described in the book about the head hunters to a fresh goats head. You can buy a fresh goats head at any El Halal market in Chicago. You can buy a goats head at a good high quality Carniceria or Mexican butcher shop. The process is smelly and disgusting, if you do it correctly the finished product does not stink, if you mess it up, well..just don't call me to rod your laundry tub if you do it at home. If you pickle and shrink the face leather of a goat and trim the hairs correctly, it's real freaking eiriely similar looking to a human. Lets just say, I did have to rod a dudes drain... Once, and only once who did this..... To goats.
Goats are expensive. Suburban life provides an endless free supply of neighbors, joggers, bottle-flinging teenagers...no need to go shopping.
Coz they keep eveil spirits away and protect you from dickheads in fart can equipped Hondas, Hyundais and Kias. Good enough reason for me !! LMAO !!! Rat
I have one hanging in my shop, its one of the goat skin ones with actual hair it looks pretty real, I never hung it in the car, I got it from the ye Olde Curiosity Shope in Seattle.
I wonder...could you shrink a complete Honda full of teenagers?? That would be AWESOME. HAMB challenge??
had one i made in my 66 'Camino.. cops hated it..said it was an "obstuction of vision" so he gave me a fix it ticket.. no sense of humor..what a putz maybe i should have told him it used to be the head off that last cop that gave me shit!
Claim it as part of your religious tradition. Sic the ACLU on him! "We must retain the heads of our enemies to serve us in the afterlife! Otherwise, we are doomed to reincarnation as annoying civil servants!"
The concept is really weird, it is supposed to be likened to collecting souls. If I have my info straight on this, the head is from one of your enemies. When you go into future battles you wear all of the heads of your fallen enemies so you carry their power into battle. If you have the head, you ate the dude who used to wear it. If you place them about your hut they are supposed to watch out for your enemies for you, like little dead sentinels. I guess this is why you hang one in your car, little dude you killed and ate watching your car for you while you shop at the Pick N Save. It's a hell of a concept.
They have a real one at Marsh's museum in Longbeach Washington. They sell copies as souveneirs. It was on my list of things to do at the last Rod Run to the End of the World in nearby Ocean Park but forgot. For sure next year. So much cooler than fuzzy dice......
No one here has mentioned the shrunken apple heads. I had the kit to do it when i was a kid, it had Victor Price on the box with his evil smile. I made so many i was giving them away, it took about a week or so to dry the apple out over a light bulb. When done you painted it and put the beady little eyes and baked bean teeth in and added the hair. I still see the kits on ebay every so often.
The one in my 37 gasser the HEAD HUNTER,i have had it a while i think i bought it at the state fair,real skin and hair
Back when I was vending at car shows people would complaining about the 5.00 price tag. I'd tell em that's cheap for a little head. Those goat skin ones are wild.