Pleasant Grove Review | 1936-02-21 | Page 7 | Extreme Skull Distortion Found in Indian Burial

j Extreme Skull Dislorlion Found in Indian Burial WASHINGTON. Calling a person a "pinhcad" would have been a cornplimert, not an in- j suit, in at least one tribe of In- diaris that lived In the South when ! white men first came into that i region. Binding Infants' heads In hoards, to make them higher arid more pointed, was carried to such an extreme that one old woman's skull, recently found near Natehl- '. t"ch-s. I.a., Is "pointed and almost the shape of a bishop's miter," In ,' the phrase of the d:s'o erer, Winslow Wins-low M. Walker, formerly of the st:iff of the Bureau of American Fthnol- I cgy here. 1 t