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Shrunken heads (tsantsas) in museum collections could be authenticated and better understood using sophisticated imaging methods

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PLOS

3D rendered image of the micro-CT scan of the tsantsa.

image: 3D rendered image of the micro-CT scan of the tsantsa (software: Dragonfly 2022.1). view more 

Credit: Andrew Nelson, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Shrunken heads (tsantsas) in museum collections could be authenticated and better understood using sophisticated imaging methods.

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0270305

Article Title: Correlative tomography and authentication features of a shrunken head (tsantsa)

Author Countries: Canada, Ecuador

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

Journal

PLOS One

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0270305

Article Title

Correlative tomography and authentication features of a shrunken head (tsantsa)

Article Publication Date

3-Aug-2022

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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