Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . Fig. 2.—A Quatsino Indian Girl. Fig. 3.—A Cumana ^Voman. These heads often measure from fifteen to twenty inchesbetween the eyes and the top of the head, exclusive of hair,and are formed by binding the heads when soft with stripsof bark. We are told of a pine-apple form of head as characteristicof the Genuensiants in former times; and Licostheiies saysthat in Ploa, a town of Voitland, tall headed inf uits wereoc
Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . Fig. 2.—A Quatsino Indian Girl. Fig. 3.—A Cumana ^Voman. These heads often measure from fifteen to twenty inchesbetween the eyes and the top of the head, exclusive of hair,and are formed by binding the heads when soft with stripsof bark. We are told of a pine-apple form of head as characteristicof the Genuensiants in former times; and Licostheiies saysthat in Ploa, a town of Voitland, tall headed inf uits wereoccasionally born as late as the year 1545, these being relicsof the effects once produced by artificial means. Scaligerrecords that children are born with compressed temples asa result of the efforts of former generations. The women ofCumana cultivate the long face and high head by compres-sion, as in fig. 3. Perhaps it is from some hereditarytradition in favour of high heads, that, until veiy recent FASHIONj OR, SIAN DEFORMED BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS. 509 times, the women of Wales wore tall, conical hats. I haveseen them attending markets, fairs, and places of pnblicamusement, a
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