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deviation from bilateral symmetry. This was the form 

 adopted, with trifling modifications, by the Macrocephali of 

 Herodotus, by the Aymara Indians of Peru, and by certain 

 tribes, as the Koskeemos, of Vancouver Island. The " dtforma- 

 tion Toulousaine " is a variation of the same form. Another 

 modification is thus described in Wilson's Prehistoric Man : 

 " The Newatees, a warlike tribe on the north end of Vancouver's 

 Island, give a conical shape to the head by means of a thong 

 of deer's skin, padded with the inner bark of the cedar-tree 



FIG. 25. Cranium of Koskeemo Indian, Vancouver Island, deformed by circular 

 constriction and elongation. (Mus. Roy. Coll. Surgeons.) 



frayed until it assumes the consistency of very soft tow. This 

 forms a cord about the thickness of a man's thumb, which 

 is wound round the infant's head, compressing it gradually 

 into a uniformly tapering cone. The effect of this singular 

 form of head is still further increased by the fashion of 

 gathering the hair into a knot on the crown of the head." 

 A "sugar-loaf" form of skull has also been found in an 

 ancient grave in France, at Voiteur in the Department of 

 Jura. 



The brain, of course, has to accommodate itself to the 

 altered shape of the bony case which contains it ; and the 



