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Chinook family

Chinook tribe, showing a man and woman carrying their baby on the mothers back, a method of flattening the babies forehead was used, by binding the baby under pressure between boards known as a cradleboard, a process said to have been initiated when the infant was about 3 months old and continued until the child was about one year

Picture No
11007645
Media ID
47633672
Size
3599px x 5422px (4.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Engraving in The Races of Mankind', page 204
Date
Circa 1890s

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Chinook Cradleboard Custom Flattening Forehead Pointed Tribes


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