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The North-American Indians do not confine themselves to 
the ’’improvement’’ of the head alone. The Indian mother 
of the Haeeltzuk tribe, of Vancouver’s Island, applies a 
thick pad or pillow to the region of the lower dorsal and 
the lumbar vertebne of her female infant, so as to cause 
the spine to bend forwards to a greater degree than the 
natural curvature at this point. The protrusion of the 
glutei muscles is very conspicuous in the adult woman 
and is esteemed a grace; which is quite in accordance 
with the taste of the English ladies a few years ago, the 
size of whose ’’bustles” was generally proportionate to 
their rank. A Haeeltzuk Chiefs daughter, with whose 
modelling great pains have been taken, waddles consi- 
derably in her gait, and has a stuck-up, penguin-like 
carriage. 
It would probably be considered only amusing to 
describe the different shapes into which the head is tor- 
tured by different tribes. There is scarcely any direction 
in which this spheroidal body can be changed in form 
that is not practised by one tribe or another, or effected 
by individual caprice. Examples are to be seen in most 
craniological museums. Mine contains many. Perhaps that 
which strikes a person like myself, familiar with the usual 
artificial deformations, as most curious, is that adopted by 
the Newatees, an exceedingly warlike tribe at the northern 
extremity of Vancouver’s Island. This is an attempt and 
a pretty successful one too, by means of winding a cord 
made of deer’s-skin round and round the head, which is 
gradually tightened, to convert it into a cone, rising straight 
upwards. Their hair drawn up in the same direction and 
tied at the top of the cone, adds much to their very sin- 
gular appearance. The tribes who practise this mode of 
