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| Picture No | 11007645 |
| Date | Circa 1890s |
| Description | Chinook family |
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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.
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| Source | Engraving in 'The Races of Mankind', page 204 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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