GIFT TO THE POPE
A PAGAN ALTER WITH SKULLS The Pope is in the habit of receiving presents from all parts of the world, but one sent him by a tribe of ex-cannibals in New Guinea, who have embraeed Christianity, has no equal in the Ethnological Missionary Museum at the Lateran Palace. It consists of a pagan alter, which used to be the tribe's most treasured possession "adorned" with six human skulls, offered to the tribal gods after the rest of the bodies had been eaten by the tribesmen. The missionary who presented the relic to the Pope stated that no young man in the tribe was allowed to take a wife until he could give the lady of his choiee a human skull. Mission- i aries of the Congregation of the Holy Word have been working in New Guinea for many years.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 310, 25 August 1932, Page 2
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143GIFT TO THE POPE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 310, 25 August 1932, Page 2
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