The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-04-26
HEAD HUNTER is
NOT BAD FELLOW
Noted Explorer Explains Motive
in Practice Of DyackS.
PART OF Their RELIGION
Soul Of 6ehsaded NsIehbor Becomes
Slave Of Slayer Throughout eternity
--oysek 10 Never Known to lie or
stesl--H You Want TO Keep Your
Head on Your Shoulders De Careful
How You Look ct = Woman.


How You Look Of = Woman.
Contrary 10 the popular Impression,
the beHd.hnmtlng Dyack ot Borneo Is
not such had fellow. nor IL the prur.
tee he INDUCES In rs rcprehenSihlr H.
II might seem.
The head hunter was presented IN
Il new light 10y Dr. Carl l.unh"lIz
Norwegian explorer, lecturer and
writer Who has returned recently
from RorneO ana is IN this country
while financing an expedition To New
Guinea.
when You get at the motives IN
DERIVING head hunting" said Doctor
LumhuItz to II Chicag" Post reporter
Won are not 80 shocked. I'm NOT
actually defending the custom, hu
there's more NJ It than appears On II"
surface.
Make Slaves OF Souls.
at is part ~ the religion ~ DyuCEs
to hunt heads l'h" nyack hrllcv"s
implicitly IN life after death. Dying
he thinks, IL Ike laying m your
clothes. hut He beyond the grave. IN
his philosophy, l. no continuous yacn-
ton. There Is work tu hr done. aud
II You are to accomplish your share
you viii need slaves.
Consequently. the moment you 10y
m the head ~ member ~ some
uclghhoring tribe his soul becomes
yours, 10 he your slave throughout
eternity.
Thus, when chief dies, the entire
Village goes m an u heudhuuIlug e1-
petition, md The souls are willet over
II" the great man ~ his slaves
"llcads also protect n village against
misfortune and glVr the natives
sense ~ assurance. There's enc chiefs
house ! know ~ thst's very well pro
tgctch. II L. decorated with at least
go skulls.
THE British and Dutch governments
ave been diSc0uragIng the praclic" by
sentcnClug head hunters 10 six YEAR
~ hard labor. hut the custom persist
FOR manN reasons. For ole thing, th,
head hunter is simply ll0n;zcd by thu
women and is looked MI to IN the vii
age rs great hero
Doctor lnmholtZ admitted That OF
more than one occasion his avn head
vas IN Jeopardy.
"Iui there's ore safe rule to h"
observed M aH""d' l'"h lbs" N"'r
head over the women and you won't
los" Vt. III" I'\arks are unusually
Jealous ~ their women ;" b" careful
now A"u max" Low" 7" the girls. "
yon. look NJ mem ~" f"i'I\ 'h'Ir
sw""lh"ariS are liable I" exact u ralh-
Or unpleasant revenge
Doctor Lumholt2, VIII" is Il member
" the Society Of Sciences ~ 'hrI~-
dHnla, IN" gold mr,la'iSt ~ the Nor
Ieginn GrOgrnphirul society. ana
member Of the S""i"te d" l'Am'INr"
pologlr ~ Paris, began his "Nrl"ra
lions about twenty years "g" among
the ah0rigincS Of Queensland.
II was while he was ~ AuSlrnlln
mai he discovered the tree kal'Sar""'
an "hi'h"' OF whose "A'>'''''' even y
T. hafhum never R''"'
Likes Primitive People.
II. CANNED uIope for mnnIhs I'm the
Jungle with III. saNages, aud grew Ia
Ike them. In. fact, he says, It j. his
natural fondncss for primitive people
that l. his greatest protection while
among them.
Among other things he expects to
nnd IN New Guinea is mysterious
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