Title
One subgroup of the Kwakiutl living at Quatsino (NW Vancouver Island) practised skull deformation as shown in this carving
Caption
One subgroup of the Kwakiutl living at Quatsino (NW Vancouver Island) practised skull deformation as shown in this carving, At birth cedarbark was bound around the noble female infants head. There is no evidence that this affected mental ability. The last survivor with such deformation said to have died in the 1920s. Northwest Coast of America. Kwakiutl.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/ Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A29_170
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No
License type
Rights managed
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26,5Mb (1,6Mb) / 8,7in x 11,8in / 2608 x 3552 (300dpi)