Headless Historicals
Quote”: “Headless Historicals are reworked dolls that were inspired by characters throughout history who died in rather horrible ways. Each doll is dressed according to how they might have appeared during the peak of their success, while their bodies appear as they would have shortly after death.”
These ‘commemorative’ dolls aredesigned by Garith Pettibone and Shiva Rodriguez. (Ah, those names alone!) Gerith worked as a ‘makeup artist at many Florida attractions’ and Shiva Shiva has been ‘creating stage costumes and studies historical torture devices and other unpleasant ways to die’.
Their homepage sports the most bizarre FAQ I ever read. Like:
How come some of the decapitated dolls have really messed up spinal bones and ragged cut stumps?
How they were decapitated plays a big part in how we design the neck stumps. For those who were beheaded by guillotine, the cuts are very clean as the heavy blade almost never had a problem slicing through muscle and bone. Heading axes, on the other hand, were more like heavy blunt choppers that crushed their way through the neck rather than a clean slice… and very often took more than one blow to do the job. Executions via sword would have varying patterns, depending on the angle of the victim and the path of the weapon during the decapitation.
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