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Nature's revelations of character, or, Physiognomy illustrated : a description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1887)

Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York : D.M. Bennett · leaf 539

An illustration from Nature's revelations of character, or, Physiognomy illustrated : a description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance, 1887, leaf 539 — sti, Sava, and some other Indiantribes, cultivate the broad head by laying a board or stoneon the infant forehead, and another on the neck, and bind-ing these together until the form is fully established byage, and the bones so hardened that they retain theirunnatural shape throughout life. A… … Fig. 6.—A Muscovite Man. Fig. 7.—A Flat-head Indian. Two hundred years ago, there were men in Old Port, inthe West Indies, who cultivated a square form of head byartificial means. When the child was young, they used

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