Shrunken head used as prop in John Huston’s ‘Wise Blood’ confirmed to be ‘composed of human tissue’
A shrunken head that was used as a prop in John Huston’s 1979 dark comedy genres was confirmed to have been real human remains. The head, known as a tsantsa, was a sacred artifact obtained by Mercer University in 1942 after a former faculty member acquired it in Ecuador while serving in the U.S. military,…