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Oh, sure. They've been doing that for thousands of years. In the Tunguska campaign we captured five Tartars alive, and three of them had holes in their skulls. One of them had two."
"They do it to each other?"
"That's right. way. Matter of fact, I think he had that hole in the skull done. It was part of an initiation ceremony, but the man who told me didn't know much about it."
"So...If he was like an honorary Tartar, they wouldn't have killed him?"
"Killed him? Is he dead then?"First they cut partway around a circle of skin on the scalp, so they can lift up a flap and expose the bone. Then they cut a little circle of bone out of the skull, very carefully so they don't penetrate the brain, and then they sew the scalp back over.""I thought they did it to their enemies!""Hell, no. It's a great privilege. They do it so the gods can talk to them.""Did you ever hear of an explorer called Stanislaus Grumman?""Grumman? Sure. I met one of his team when I flew over the Yenisei River two years back. He was going to live among the Tartar tribes up that