Head Hunters

in anthropology, a name given to several races or tribes notably to the Dyaks and Kyans of Borneo and Celebes, on account of their savage mania of hunting for heads, generally by nocturnal ambuscades, and treasuring them as trophies. VTylor connects the barbarous custom with the rite of funeral human sacrifice, and says that the Dyaks considered that the owner of every human head they could procure would serve them in the next world, where their rank would ae) on the number of heads they ad taken.in_ this, The present of a head is exacted from every aspirant to a Dyak bride. The influence of Sir James Brooke did a great deal to discourage head-hunting, and it is now disappearing. The resemblance of this practise to the taking of scalps by American Indians is obvious, Headley, Joel Tyler, an American prose-writer; born in Walton, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1813. Graduating from Union College in 1846, he became a istant editor of the New York “Tribune.” His writings had great currency in their day, and contain much valuable information about early American history. He died in 1897.