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What might they have been used for?

We still don't really know what these headdresses were used for. In this video Professor Nicky Milner presents two ideas.

In this film Nicky explains that there are two dominant theories about how these headdresses were used – as part of costumes used in hunting red deer, or in shamanic rituals.

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