when Pickersgill brought the head on board, the ship’s officers wanted to produce empirical proof of cannibalism among the Maori.

Gananath Obeyesekere, Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas, ch. 2, p. 31

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