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> Shrink is a short version of headshrinker which originated with the 
> practices of the medicine men of Africa.
How Afrocentric! :-)

I think you will find, Michael, that head shrinking was a practice of 
aboriginals of the Amazon River basin in South America, not Africans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrunken_head

Chris
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