The Head of a Navigator

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The Head of a Navigator (also known as Navigator Head) is an enchanted head of a navigator who was captured by the Monkey Island Cannibals. It has been enchanted so that it always shows which way the carrier must go to reach his destination. Guybrush uses it to navigate the Caverns of Meat underneath Monkey Island while trying to get to LeChuck's ship.

The Navigator Head is wrapped in a necklace that makes it invisible to ghosts. If the player begs the head enough he will give the necklace to Guybrush.

In Monkey Island 2 Captain Dread has lost his lucky amulet, the eye that has seen the world, and refuses to leave Scabb Island without it. The amulet apparently being the only part of his former navigator left back by cannibals (an eyeball). This leads to the natural assumption that the Navigator Head was once Dread's navigator. The Navigator Head does, however, have both eyes, but the cannibals may have replaced one or both.

In Escape From Monkey Island Guybrush can ask the Voodoo Lady for an invisibility necklace, to which she replies "It's been a bad year for unspoiled eyeballs". This is a reference to it's necklace made of eyeballs.

Game appearances

• The Secret of Monkey Island