During world war 2 GIs in the pacific would take Japanese heads, boil them down to just the skull, then mail them home to the US. There’s a famous Life Magazine photo of a secretary with a Japanese skull on her desk at work. It was so widespread the army had to pass a regulation against taking body parts as trophies.
menlindorn says
There are real human skulls all over the place
PorkfatWilly says
During world war 2 GIs in the pacific would take Japanese heads, boil them down to just the skull, then mail them home to the US. There’s a famous Life Magazine photo of a secretary with a Japanese skull on her desk at work. It was so widespread the army had to pass a regulation against taking body parts as trophies.