SIGNED 101 Faces of the Forgotten: Human Shrunken Heads Limited Edition McGinty
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SIGNED 101 Faces of the Forgotten: Human Shrunken Heads Limited Edition McGinty. From the author of the SHRUNKEN HEADS series: Out of the Dark, Into the Light and Face 2 Face. This is not a comfortable book. Drawing on decades of firsthand study and experience, McGinty is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on shrunken heads (tsantsa), bringing rare insight and authenticity to a subject often misunderstood or sensationalized. SIGNED by Author. Numbered and Dated. Limited Edition Cover Design Three - Only 101 Copies Printed! 101 Faces of the Forgotten: Human Shrunken Heads – The History of Tsantsa, Amazonian Tribes, and Indigenous Rituals From the author of the SHRUNKEN HEADS series: Out of the Dark, Into the Light and Face 2 Face. 101 Faces of the Forgotten is a stark, unflinching journey into the silent world of human shrunken heads — not as curiosities, not as museum relics, but as once-living people whose identities were stripped away and replaced with decades of myth, fear, and misinformation. This is not a comfortable book. Nor was it meant to be. Drawing on decades of firsthand study and experience, McGinty is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on shrunken heads (tsantsa), bringing rare insight and authenticity to a subject often misunderstood or sensationalized. The opening section of this volume grounds the reader in history. The first fifty pages trace the evolution of shrunken heads from their origins in the mid-1400s — when tsantsa held deep spiritual and cultural meaning — through the centuries that followed, into the darker period of exploitation that emerged in the late 1800s and continued into the mid-1900s. What began as a sacred practice was gradually corrupted, giving rise to the brutal tourist and trade market that stripped these objects of their meaning and humanity. In this standalone volume, separate from the core trilogy, McGinty presents one hundred and one faces drawn out of the shadows, each photographed with raw intimacy and reverence. UNFILTERED. UNCOMFORTABLE. REAL. No sensationalism. No exaggeration. Just the truth — the humanity behind the horror. These are not artifacts. These are the final portraits of men, women, and children who vanished into violence, ritual, and the ruthless trade that followed — a reality rarely seen, and even more rarely understood. This book does not seek to explain them. It seeks to remember them. A visual memorial. A gallery of the lost. A reminder that every shrunken head was once a beating heart and a life that mattered. Contains historical imagery presented in documentary context.
