[Aztlan] Solped Foreheads

[Katherine Reece]

> Listeros:           While browsing threw a book of North Americans Indian 
> Tribes I noticed a painting of a Pacific Northwest Cowlitz Warrior with a 
> child in a basket with a piece of wood tied to his head so that the 
> forehead would be sloped as his was. I have seen the same appearance in 
> Mayan drawings and read stories about them. Was this practice common in 
> the Americas?                Mario F. Malo
>


While visiting the Alabama Moundville Archaeological Park last year 
http://moundville.ua.edu/ I noticed that they had a headboard in their 
museum that had been found on site.  I'd be interested in a couple of 
references to papers on North American headboards and how wide spread their 
use was.

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