the name of the word for it is called Haddocks’ Eyes

Thousands of Inca Mummies Raised From Their Graves

About 40 of the large mummy bundles are topped with false heads, known to archaeologists as falsas cabezas.

Can’t quarrel with that! (Cabeza is Spanish for ‘head’.)

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One Response to the name of the word for it is called Haddocks’ Eyes

  1. Anton says:

    The Latin ancestor of cabeza would seem to be capitia, perhaps a dialect form of the neuter plural (classically capita).

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