Fancy catching an eyeful of a 100-year-old shrunken head from Ecuador or a cannibal fork from Fiji?
Edward Meyer, vice-president of exhibits and archives for Ripley's Believe It or Not museums, arrived in New Zealand yesterday for a tour promoting Ripley's book, Strikingly True.
He brought a suitcase full of treasures, but Customs confiscated two items.
One, a hairball coughed up by a cow, which Meyer said was the cheapest item in his collection, was held because animal products were not allowed. The second item was one of the rarest pieces in the collection - a vampire killing kit from the 1840s.
"The problem was there is a pistol as part of the kit," Meyer said. "If there are any vampires out for Halloween in New Zealand, it's the Customs guy's fault."
