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In Maori warfare, decapitation marked the beginning, not the end, of a vanquished warrior's humiliation.

— Lawrence H. Keeley War Before Civilization (1996)

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See also: Cannibalism in Oceania § New Zealand, A. Vayda (1960) p. 95

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