A skull preserved and decorated and used for divination on the Torres Straits Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia. The inquirer would clean, paint and anoint the skull, enjoin it to speak the truth, put it near his head at night, go to sleep and dream and his actions would be based on the dream. From a nineteenth century photograph.
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A skull preserved and decorated and used for divination on the Torres Straits Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia. The inquirer would clean, paint and anoint the skull, enjoin it to speak the truth, put it near his head at night, go to sleep and dream and his actions would be based on the dream. From a nineteenth century photograph in From Customs of The World, published circa 1913.