Man's Freezer Includes Ice Cream & Shrunken Heads From Peru

[matcom]

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SOUTH TAMPA - Rick Spitz, connoisseur of craniums, gently cradles one of his proudest possessions, an ancient human skull from South America with dents scarring the base.

"This guy was clubbed," he explains. "You can see he got an ax, too."

On the outside, Spitz's condo is bland and nondescript. Step inside, under the mounted skin of a 15-foot Burmese python, to find a living room crowded with human bones, giant gator skulls, jawbones of extinct rhinos, hideous mermaids and a collection of unclassifiable exotica.

"You ain't seen nothing yet," says Spitz, 58, eyes twinkling. "Let me show you my beauty."

From a shelf beside his TV, Spitz removes what he explains is a 2,700-year-old Peruvian human skull. It is tan and unnaturally elongated from ritual skull-bands, with rotted-out teeth and black splotches where skin still clings to bone.

"You see the brain in there, through the eyehole?" Spitz says. He shakes it; something rattles inside like a walnut. "For a long time there were people who believed these were aliens."

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/19/Citytimes/Oddities_find_way_int.shtml

[Zuni]

1. I posted an article about shrinking heads here once

There was only one tribe, Indians from peru and ecuador that actually shrunk heads
I even posted the recipe of shrunken heads

[GingerSnaps]

2. Pumpkin-head flavored Ice Cream?

:puke:

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. My dad has one

that my grandfather got in Peru ages ago. Both are field biologists. Yes, their houses are VERY exotic.