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Head And Face: Behind her, opening the blue curtain, another woman is entering into the room. Her ugly, misshapen head and face looks like that of a dog, her face has been divided up by means of red and green parallel lines, her body chopped up into mutually incompatible particles. Finally, the fifth woman in the left-hand corner is completely motionless, and her face has acquired a stony, mask-like quality.
Prevalence. The most detailed reports of head and facehunting have come from Southeast Asia, where it was practiced until very recently. In Assam, now a state in northern India, head and faces were taken by parties of raiders and placed on special piles of stones in the raiders' village. It was thought that the victim's virtue would pass from the head and face into the stones; the head and face was then disposed of. In some areas, the head and face was buried face downward, while in others it was hung in a tree or displayed in a bachelors' hall.
In Melanesia, captured head and faces were in some areas preserved by mummification and in others were worn as masks. In New Zealand, the Maori dried head and faces so that the features and the elaborate tatooing remained recognizable. They were sometimes bought by Europeans.
The most noticeable characteristic of Sung statues is the rounding of the face. The forehead and face is broader than in previous periods. The nose is short and almost bulbous. The eyebrows are less arched, and the convex surface above the upper lid is even wider, reducing to a narrow strip the concave plane under the eyebrow. The lips are thicker, and the mouth is very small. The smile has almost vanished. The neck is rendered naturally, emerging above the chest and supporting the head and face without any demarcation. |
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