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No. LXII.—BURIALS. 
Including’ customs at death; objects deposited with the dead; 
reasons assigned for; food deposited with; ceremonies at. See 
also No. XXX. Religions. 
No. LXIIL—DEFORMATIONS. 
By Professor GEORGE BUSK, F.R.S. 
The practice of artificially producing deformities in the 
human subject appears to have existed from the most remote 
times of which we have any record, and to have prevailed at 
one time or another in all parts of the world. In the investi¬ 
gation, therefore, of the ethnographical characters of a people, 
considerable interest attaches to observations respecting artificial 
u deformations,” as the practice in question has been termed; 
for it is very possible that important information may thence 
be derived with regard to the relations between different tribes 
or races, even widely separated from each other. 
The principal kinds of intentional deformation to be looked 
for may be arranged under the heads of:— 
A. Cranial. 
B. Facial, including the ears. 
C. Dental. 
D. Of the trunk and extremities. 
As the practices of tattooing and circumcision, &c. are placed 
under other heads, they will not here be considered, although 
in one sense they may be regarded as kinds of artificial defor¬ 
mation. 
A. Cranial Deformation. 
Alteration in the natural form of the skull is, so far as is 
known, the most ancient and the most general of all kinds 
of artificial deformation, and consequently all observations re¬ 
lating to it will be of interest and importance. 
There are two principal ways in which the change from its 
natural shape is produced in the human skull:—- 
