| Many Jivaro now also speak the Quechua language, which is spoken throughout the Andes region. |
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| You know, the Jivaro believe that once they shrink their enemy's heads, the soul is trapped inside it. |
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| These native peoples, including the Jivaro and the Waoroni, speak languages that are unrelated to Quechua. |
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| The Jivaro have medicinal plants desired by the multinational Monsanto-Searle. |
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| Next to him is a quite authentic Jivaro blow-gun originating with the people who used to make fully functional shrunken heads. |
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| The Jivaro live on the eastern slopes of the Andes where mountain ranges meet the Amazon River headwaters. |
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| The Jivaro offer an interesting model, aside from the cannibalism. |
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| Shrinking heads, or making tsantsa, an ancient practice associated mostly with the Jivaro tribe of South America, was believed to keep away avenging spirits. |
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