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le front, croyant que c’estoit vn trait de beauté le a’auoir 
ainsi.” Artificially deformed skulls have further been 
procured by Doctors Schetelig and Jagor, about the year 
1860, from caves on the islands of Samar, Leyte, and 
Luzon, and from Bicol and Cimarron graves (Cimarrons 
being hybrids between Negritos and Bicols) in Albay on 
Luzon. An Igorrotes skull from West Luzon, which I 
brought home, is, according to Prof. Virchow, so small 
as to suggest that it has not its natural form. From the 
south-west of the large island of Mindanao Professors 
de Quatrefages and Hamy have described two deformed 
Hilloonas (Negrito?) skulls, and the Dresden Museum 
possesses two enormously deformed skulls from a cave 
Fic. 4. 
Fic. 4.—Negrito, young woman, Luzon. 
Fic. 3. 
Fic. 3.—Negrito, man, Luzon. 
near Lianga in South-East Mindanao, procured by Prof. 
Semper. 
One of these (Fig. 6) has been pressed from the front 
to the occiput for the special purpose, at the same time, 
of flattening the whole head. The hinder parts of the 
parietals slope down nearly perpendicularly at the tubera, 
and the occiput has no prominence at all. The other 
(Fig. 7) has been acted upon from below and behind and 
from the front, and, at the same time, bya broad bandage 
across the parietals behind the coronal suture, where a 
deep depression occurs. The tubera parietalia are blown 
up similar to those of skulls from the Gulf of Mexico, 
Fic. 5.—Negrito, man, Luzon. 
which Dr. Gosse called “ tétes trilobées.’’ Therefore it 
cannot be doubted that the custom has been, and is in 
use nearly everywhere on the Philippine Islands. 
Not less so in the island of Celebes, which is nearly 
united to the Mindanao by some smaller groups of islands, 
which may be considered as stepping-stones. Mr. Riedel 
of Gorontalo informed us in the year 1871 that the in- 
habitants of Buol, Kaidipan, and Bolang-itam in North 
Celebes wind round the heads of their children the 
smoothed bark of the Lahendong tree, and afterwards 
press it between two wooden planks, which are fastened 
in front and occiput. The heads are broadened by this 
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process, which is considered a peculiar attraction ; the 
child is treated in this way from four to five months. 
Mr. Riedel even forwarded a model of a cradle, as used 
in Buol for deforming the heads of noblemen’s children ; 
the instrument remains fastened for six to eight weeks, 
and the children are only freed every second ‘day to be 
bathed. Mr. Wilken recorded the same custom from 
Fic. 6.—Artificially deformed skull from a cave near Lianga, Mindanao. 
Passan and Ratahan in the Minahassa, in North Celebes, 
the last-named spot being quite near Panghu, a place 
where Mr. Wallace made one of his celebrated collec- 
tions (‘‘ Malay Archipelago,” vol. i. p. 408). Mr. Wilken 
says that the process is continued from fifty to sixty days, 
and that the flattening of the forehead is called “ taleran,” 
the common people practising it very generally now. The 
Fic. 7.—Artificially deformed skull from a cave near Lianga, Mindanao. 
same custom is in use still with other tribes of the Mina- 
hassa and the surrounding countries. Finally, Mr. Riedel 
could prove it among peoples called Toragi, Tondai, 
Torau, and Tomori in Central Celebes, where the heads 
of the boys are pressed laterally and from behind, “that 
they may become good warriors,’ and the foreheads of 
the girls broadened “to increase the beauty of the 
