[Antago]

Yes, the head, but if you'll look at society, let's see if what she was doing is really all that religiously strange when you consider other religious practices:

Embalming a body.
Mummification.
Carrying around property from a deceased loved one (perhaps a lockette or something).
Having funerals.
Burying a body in an expensive casket with expensive clothing and stuff.
Visiting graves where the active mind is no longer pravelent.
Carrying around deceased love ones' ashes.
Making an altar of a deceased loved ones' ashes in your house.
Shrinking heads in ancient cultures and carrying them around.
Descalping victims during the French and Native American war and keeping the scalp.


There are many others, but the point is, people do these sorts of things, and she wasn't carrying it bare in public, but rather in a white tupperware type container inside a leather handbag.