Stumanu a Flat-Head Boy The Chinnooks are a tribe of Indians inhabiting the shores of the Columbia river, near the Pacific ocean. They practise the savage custom of flattening the foreheads of their infants by means of a board applied to that part, whence they are called Flatheads by the whites, from the book ' History of the Indian Tribes of North America with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. ' Volume 2 of 3 by Thomas Loraine, McKenney, and James Hall Esq. Published in 1842 Painted by Charles Bird King

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