Pumapungo

We live just a few minutes from a great free museum that also has incan ruins, an incan garden and an aviary. We've walked over there twice and I hope to go a couple more times! The outside area is really pretty and so fun to walk around. The girls loved the aviary. I'm trying hard to get outside despite the rain.

Inside the museum is an exhibit about the Shuar tribes of the Amazon. The Shuar people shrink the heads of their enemies and in the museum, there are a few different shrunken heads on display. It's pretty bananas. Shrunken human heads are now illegal, but there's still black market demand. A part of the Shuar culture that still exists is an initiation into manhood. A boy goes into the jungle with a green plantain. Before the plantain ripens, he must return with a shrunken head of a sloth. The lighting of the exhibit prevented me from taking any great photos of the shrunken heads, so you'll just have to google that!