98 General Notes. [Jan. 
They are taken on the backs of men and animals, packed in 
baskets andcrates. These toys are very truthful representations 
of the manners and customs of the people. For the rude appa- 
ratus employed they are truly remarkable. The most interesting 
fact about this ware is the way in which the artist holds on to 
ancient forms, and in the decoration yields himself absolutely to 
the whims and demands of the market. He even borrows from 
the Spaniard the art of silvering and gilding. 
This almost total hiding of the old thing which they are un- 
willing to give up, with paint and forms to which their old art 
was a stranger, is also seen in their gourd vessels. 
The pitchers from Toluca, once simple unnozzled vessels, are 
lost in the large spouts, altered handles, polished surface, elab- 
orate decoration, glazing, and stamping. 
Still one may visit regions in Mexico where the old art still 
survives. The Pames, near the Valle del Maiz, and the Huaste- 
cas, the Indians of Sierra Nola and of Savanito, away from the 
influence of innovations, make their esse as of old, simple in 
orm and decoration.—Edward Palmer 
Head-flattening.— Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U.S.A., contributes to 
the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology a paper on the skull of a 
Navajo child. The most interesting feature of this skull is the 
marked parieto-occipital flattening. The plane is somewhat ob- 
lique, and there is not only a flattening but a gentle depression 
over the entire area involved. The bones flexed are the two pa- 
rietals from a little in front of the obelion, and almost the whole 
of the supra-squamous portion of the occipital. Dr. Shufeldt 
has not seen a Navajo skull lacking this feature. Navajo women 
carry their children about strapped on a stiff cradle-board, with 
only a small, narrow pad beneath the occiput. However, it is 
` only the infants of a few months of age that have their heads 
bound down closely to the backboard of their portable cradles. 
Just as soon as they are able to support their heads and have 
acquired sufficient strength to control the movements of this part 
of the body, they are at once allowed considerable more latitude 
in this particular. Indeed, in the case of children who range 
from six months, or at the most eight months, of age, and up- 
wards, I have never observed that the Navajo mothers strap paid 
children’s heads at all. If the ‘strapping of the head during thes 
first few montls of infant life is sufficient to produce this poe 
deformity, then the problem is surely solved once for all. 
Love and Anthropology.—Professor Paolo Mantegazza has 
penne in Milan two volumes on love among the different 
which have been eonan in several foreign maga- 
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o zines. Following his example, Dr. D. G. Brinton has laid the 
n upon the dissecting-table, and given to the world 
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