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ORIGIN OF THE



only to prove an affinity between the inhabitants of both
continents but also to deliver down to posterity their
national peculiarities before they disappear, it is but right,
we think, to impart as much information as xve possibly
can.



VARIOUS CUSTOMS AMONG THE NORTH
            AMERICAN INDIANS.

SHAPES WHICH THEY GIVE TO THEIR CHILDREN.



  Then
which f
very flal
shape is
give it t
this end
of their



F
r,



e are, on the continent of America, some n;
hey call Flat Heads. These have their fore
, and-the top of their heads lengthened.
not the work of nature; it is the mothers
) their children as soon as they are born.



, they apply to their f
heads, two masses of



substance, which they bind
taken thie shape they desire
this operation is very painfu
nostrils emit some whitish
circumstance, nor the cries
alarm their mothers, as they



them a h
not conce
reverse x
or Bowl.
having tl
care also



andsom
.'ive hovu
vith cer
Heads;
heir hen



breheads
clay, or
by little
to give it
1 to the
matter;
of these
are desi



itions
heads
This
who
For



and the back part
some other heavy
till the skull has
*. It appears that
children, whose



but



I
r



C



lit
)US



, appearance, without wi
rothers can be satisfied.
tain Algonquins, named
for they make their bea
ds perfectly round-: and



neither



this



tle innocents,
I 0
of procuring
-iich they can-
It is quite the
Round Heads
uty consist in
mothers take



very early to aive them this shape.