. Bulletin. Ethnology. 54 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. B. Bull. 143. Figure 2.—Diagram showing the application of head flattening apparatus, Quebrada de Humahuaca. (4) The area of Diaguita influence extends to the remaining territory of San Juan, a part of Cdrdoba, and some of Santa Fe, in which more or less sporadic finds reveal the presence of deformed crania of both flat types, although their development in that area is less character- istic and few crania show annular deformation. To the second area belong the ancient inhabitants of the valleys of Patagonia whose northern limits do not st
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 54 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. B. Bull. 143. Figure 2.—Diagram showing the application of head flattening apparatus, Quebrada de Humahuaca. (4) The area of Diaguita influence extends to the remaining territory of San Juan, a part of Cdrdoba, and some of Santa Fe, in which more or less sporadic finds reveal the presence of deformed crania of both flat types, although their development in that area is less character- istic and few crania show annular deformation. To the second area belong the ancient inhabitants of the valleys of Patagonia whose northern limits do not stop at present political boundaries. In the political divisions of Rio Negro, Chubut, and Santa Cruz, and the southern part of the Province of Buenos Aires, deformed crania have been found, often in large numbers, although always in a cultural level above the layer of typically Pampcan dolichocephals, who represent the truly ancient peoples of the Patagonian region. The plateau-dwellers who practiced deformation generally used the flat, vertical type. Rather numerous specimens from Rio Negro and other scattered sites in the southern part of Buenos Aires reveal a curious specialization of this general type, the "pseudocircular" shape. Among the instruments which native mothers used to mold the tender heads of their young children, we are familiar with that typical of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, an apparatus of "free" boards applied to the forehead and the occiput (fig. 2). This consisted of two boards, each composed of several layers of soft algarroba wood a little more than 1 mm. in thickness; the smaller was placed on the forehead, the larger on the occiput, with its center in the region of the inion; the two boards were then drawn toward each other by tightening the slender strands of wool which passed around them. A device of two "free" boards, similar to the one described Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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