. |1 There is no certain cause which can be assigned forthese sculptural freaks. It has been suggested thatsome of these peoples ate mud or clay in times offamine and that their abdomens swelled out of pro-portion thereby. It has also been thought that thecubical abdomen maj^ represent the lines of… … 166 ART AND MAN. explanation, I believe, has yet been offered. Whateverthe cause of this queer distortion of the figure, however,it seems strange that it should appear sporadically in threeplaces and races, quite unconnected with one another. There is one curious probably unique instance, inWhite…
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