Sujet
One subgroup of the Kwakiutl living at Quatsino (NW Vancouver Island) practised skull deformation as shown in this carving
Légende
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
Crédit
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Notre référence
UMG12A29_170
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
26,5Mo (1,6Mo) / 22,1cm x 30,1cm / 2608 x 3552 (300dpi)