Shrunken head

A shrunken head was a severed and specially prepared human head that was used for trophy, ritual, or trade purposes.

History
During the Age of Piracy, headhunting has occurred in many regions of the world, but the practice of headshrinking has only been documented in the northwestern region of the Amazon rain forest in South America.

When Edward Teague's wife died, her head was cut off and shrunk. During the Fourth Brethren Court, Teague showed this grisly effigy to his son, Jack Sparrow. During the Quest for the Fountain of Youth, the infamous pirate Blackbeard kept a shrunken head of an unknown man on the table in the captain's cabin of his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean Online
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides