[Aztlan] Sloped Foreheads

[Elaine Day Schele]

Hi Katherine and Mario,

There is a brief notation and map on pages 330 and 331 from a paper that was
written by Harold E. Driver and William C. Massey that can be found on Jstor
called "Comparative Studies of North American Indians".  Keep in mind that
it was written in 1957.  

Here is the link to the article:  http://www.jstor.org/pss/1005714

I can send a PDF of those two pages to anyone who requests it.

Elaine 

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Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Solped Foreheads



> 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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