Shut your mouth and save your life / by George Catlin.

  • George Catlin
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Shut your mouth and save your life / by George Catlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dren under the age above-mentioned; and which I found still further, if not more strongly, corroborated in the collection of human Skulls preserved and lying on the ground underneath the scaffolds. By the custom peculiar to this tribe, when the scaf- folds decay, on which the bodies rest, and fall to the ground, the skulls, which are bleached, are carefully and superstitiously preserved in several large circles on the ground; and amongst several hundreds of these skulls, I was forcibly struck with the almost incredibly small proportion of crania of children; and even more so, in the almost unexceptional completeness and sound- ness (and total absence of malformation) of their beauti- ful sets of teeth, of all ages, which are scrupulously kept