. Anthropology. he simple frontal or Toulousian (Toulousaine) variety, so namedfrom the country in which it has been specially noticed. (Fig. 22.)In the annular, the band extends from a point behind the bregma, * See also La Deformation allongee et cylindrique of Foville, of whichthe annular is a variety, in Anat. Syst. Nerveux of Foville. Paris, 1844. Chap, v.] DEFORMATION OF THE AYMAEAS. 183 vertically below the chin, by crossing a circular furrow whichdivides the head into two portions; these being less decided in theannular than in the bilobed variety. In the Toulousian^ the linestarts fro
. Anthropology. he simple frontal or Toulousian (Toulousaine) variety, so namedfrom the country in which it has been specially noticed. (Fig. 22.)In the annular, the band extends from a point behind the bregma, * See also La Deformation allongee et cylindrique of Foville, of whichthe annular is a variety, in Anat. Syst. Nerveux of Foville. Paris, 1844. Chap, v.] DEFORMATION OF THE AYMAEAS. 183 vertically below the chin, by crossing a circular furrow whichdivides the head into two portions; these being less decided in theannular than in the bilobed variety. In the Toulousian^ the linestarts from the occiput, reaches the forehead obliquely, and thereexerts its principal pressure.* The macrocephaUc unites the twosystems, so that the frontal depression of the Toulousian and thepost-bregmatie depression of the annular exist there, the two beingseparated by a bregmatic projection. We must say it is often difficult to distinguish certain macro-eephalic skulls of the Crimea from certain elongated crania from. viexFig. 22.—Artificial deformation of tlie skuil, called Toulousaine. the country of the ancient Aymaras. Among the deformations notincluded with the two preceding kinds, and which Gosse describes,we may mention the nasal deioTmsAion^diformation nasdle) or flatten-ing of the bones of the nose, practised by the Botocudos of America,and the naso-parietal [deformation naso-parietale) or Mongolian,peculiar to the ancient Huns and to certain Kirghis. We have said that the types of ethnic deformations of the skullpresent gradations, whereby they are at times insensibly trans-formed into other types, although their general character remains. * Snr la Deformation Toulousaine du Cr4ne, by M. Broca, in dAuthrop., 1871. 184 DEFORMATION OF THE AYMAEAS. [Chap. v. The skulls whicli are met with in Upper Peru and Bolivia, and aregenerally attributed to the Aymaras, are proofs of this. Theirvarieties may be reduced to three. In the first, almost the entireskull is thrown
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