Cannibalism in Oceania

A cannibal feast on Tanna , Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889

The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine

Pacific Islander cannibals called human flesh 'long pig' — not metaphor, but olfactory report: it smelled indistinguishable from roasting pork. The term traveled back to Europe in 19th-century missionary journals.