. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. are a well-marked type of mankind is agreed; and many regard them as includingtwo types, the long and the short headed ; but it is almost impossible todivide them satisfactor-ily, and the two types are curiouslj^ TINNEH AND VANCOUVER INDIANS. THE CANADIAN INDIANS. 75 This may arise in part from tlie extensive use of the practice of- skull-flattening, in several f
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. are a well-marked type of mankind is agreed; and many regard them as includingtwo types, the long and the short headed ; but it is almost impossible todivide them satisfactor-ily, and the two types are curiouslj^ TINNEH AND VANCOUVER INDIANS. THE CANADIAN INDIANS. 75 This may arise in part from tlie extensive use of the practice of- skull-flattening, in several forms. There is simple frontal flattening skuii-(Peruvians, Caribbeans), simple occipital flattening (Peruvians), fattening,fronto-occipital or double-flattening, sometimes with unsymmetricalbulging at one side (Columbians, Vancouver Islanders), and peculiarelongation by lateral as well as other pressure (Aymara Indians, Peru,and some Vancouver Islanders). It is very remarkable that such long-continued pressure during infancy and childhood does not appear toinjure the brain; and that in cases where the families of the chiefsalone maintain the practice, they are able to keep their supremacy overtheir subjects whose heads are not deformed. Of course, as intercoursewith European settlers has increased, this practice has largely fallen intodisuse. Whether it be trueor not that two races, along and a short Forms ofheaded one, ^^^^^•have su
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