A man eats of his sister's husband and of his brother's wife.

Mothers' brothers, mothers' sisters, sisters' children, mothers' parents, and daughters' children are also eaten by those to whom the deceased person stands in such relation.

But the father does not eat of his children, nor the children of their sire.
"The New Zealanders, up to very recent times, were probably the most anthropophagous race that ever existed.

As many as 1000 prisoners have been slaughtered by them at one time after a successful battle, the bodies being baked in ovens underground.

If the individual consumed had been a redoubtable enemy they dried his head as a trophy and made flutes of his thigh bones.
"Among the Monbuttos of Africa human fat is commonly employed for a variety of purposes.