Chinook Woman and Child

Mid-nineteenth century painting by Paul Kane showing a Chinook woman and child, showing their method of flattening children's heads with an apparatus known as a cradleboard, and the look this achieves in adults

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom

Aesthetic Anthropological Anthropology Chinook Cradle Cradleboard Custom Deformity Flatten Flattening Marking Standards

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