Long story short: the guy in question, a Major General Horatio Gordon Robley, was interested in ethnology and especially the Maori practice of tattooing, which was facilitated by the Maori practice of mokomokai, which was heads, either from notables in a tribe or notable enemies killed in battle, that were preserved.
So he got them… I will say legitimately, since it was the native Maori’s doing it and he did pay them for them.
Weird as fuck, but not something that you can solely blame on the white Europeans.
History! Two sides to every story!
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