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shows that the flattening is not intentional, but merely the result of the 

 hardness of the cradle board on which the child was kept. The occi- 

 pital spine and protuberance of No. XII. are very strongly developed, but 

 they are very marked in all the crania. The vertical plate of the ethmoid 

 bone and the nasal process of the maxillary bones are in Nos. XI. and 

 XII. much distorted. 



Tsimshian. 



I do not intend, in the present report, to treat of the deformed crania of 

 the southern tribes. Suffice it to say that three methods of deformation 

 are practised in British Columbia : (i) the conical one, which results in the 

 long heads of the Kwakiutl, and which is also used by the (^atloltq; (ii) the 

 flattening by means of cushions and bandages, resulting in asymmetrical 

 hyperbrachycephalic heads ; and (iii) flattening by means of boards. It 

 may be of interest to show the eSect of these methods upon the length and 

 width of the crania. The second group comprises only crania flattened 

 by means of cushions. I add a short column of crania with little or no 

 deformations. 



■ Height of face, 116. 



