6 On the Ethnography and Archeology 
This cranium (and another received with it) has that remark- 
able sugar-loaf form which renders them high and broad in front, 
with a short antero-posterior diameter, both the forehead and oc- 
ciput bearing evidence of long continued compression. ‘They 
correspond precisely with the descriptions given by Cieza, 'Tor- 
quemada and others among the earliest travellers in Peru, who saw 
the natives in various ee of the country with heads rounded 
precisely in this manner.* SOEs Opp gS 
The second head figured, (fig. 3,) is 
that of a Natchez Indian,} obtained from a 
mound not far from that city by the late 
Mr. James Tooley, Jr., and by him pre- 
sented tome. The face in this, as in the 
former instance, has all the characteristics 
of the native Indian; and the cranium 
has undergone precisely the same process ei 
of ivtificial compression, although these 
tribes were separated from each other 
by the vast geographical distance of four thousand miles! 
Could we discover the cranial remains of the older Mexican 
nations, we should doubtless find many of them to possess the 
same fanvifia type of conformation ;{ for if either of the skulls 
figured above could be again clothed in flesh and blood, would 
we not have restored to us the very heads that are so abundantly 
sculptured on the monuments of Central America, and so graphi- 
cally described by Herrera, when he rae om that the people of 
Yucatan flattened their heads and forehead: 
_ The following diagrams are copied, on an cee seale, from 
Mr. Stephens’s Travels, and will serve in further illustration of 
this interesting subject. They are taken from bas-reliefs in the 
* Crania Americana, p. 116. 
+1 have been looking'to Dr. Dickerson, of Natchez, for more complete details 
derived from the tamuli of that ancient tribe which formed a link between the 
— nations on the one hand, and the savage hordes on the other. Dr. Dicker- 
is amply provided with interesting and important materials for this inquiry, 
wha we trust he will soon make public. 
+ The skull brought me from Ticul by Mr. Stephens, is were of a young female. 
It presents the natural rounded form; which accords with the observation of M. 
D A (L'Homme Seeciein;) that the artificial oaling of the medians’ 
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5 Trebiee in Central Amerit pvol. ik i, p. 341. 
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