. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Artificially-compressed Cranium from Titicaca. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) continued among the Peruvians for some time after their conquest by the Spaniards ; for the Ecclesiastical Court of Lima passed a decree in the year 1585, forbidding parents, under certain specified penalties, to compress or distort the heads of their children in the various modes which were then in vogue. The practice still exists among certain tribes of South American Indians; and seems to be regarded in muc
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Artificially-compressed Cranium from Titicaca. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) continued among the Peruvians for some time after their conquest by the Spaniards ; for the Ecclesiastical Court of Lima passed a decree in the year 1585, forbidding parents, under certain specified penalties, to compress or distort the heads of their children in the various modes which were then in vogue. The practice still exists among certain tribes of South American Indians; and seems to be regarded in much the same light with the artificial compression of the foot by the Chinese, or of the waist by the French and English, — namely, as an artificial develop- ment of a natural beauty. V. OCEANIC NATIOJSS.— The vast Oceanic area, extending in longitude from Madagascar on the one side, to Easter Island (half way be- tween Asia and America) on the other; and in latitude from Formosa to New Zealand, includ- ing the numerous islands of the Indian and Polynesian archipelagoes, and the great island- continent of Australia, is peopled by tribes the greater part of which are undoubtedly related to each other very intimately, and have no near affinities with those of any other region. The only part of the mainland of Asia which is in- habited by an Oceanic tribe, is the Peninsula of Malacca ; and there is far more reason to think that this tribe has migrated to that locality from the neighbouring part of Oceania, than that it represents the original stock and line of migration of the Oceanic races. In the physical characters of the Oceanic tribes, two typical varieties present themselves ; and these may be designated as the Malayo-Polynesian, and the Negrito. The Malayo-Polynesians present a nearer approach to the Mongolian type than to any other ; but they must be compared rather with the modified Mongols of the south-east por- tion of the Asiatic continent, than with the proper Tura
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