Carl Bock: Borneo Explorer and Headhunter Societies Unveiled #shorts

追加: 2026-06-06

[00:00:00]Word is sent round to look for heads, as many as possible of these horrid trophies are desired, for according to Dyak belief, the beheaded people will be slaves to the deceased Raja in heaven.

[00:00:12]Carl Bock, Head Hunters of Borneo. So, who was Carl Bock? A granite jawed Norwegian explorer funded by the Royal Geographical Society and Dutch colonial authorities to hack through the jungle, haul his way up the Mahakam River, and record societies that hoarded human heads as ossified trophies taken so the [music] dead might serve a Raja in heaven, which, oddly enough, they considered rather reasonable.