 | Ross Cox - 1831 - 400 pages
...is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead with a piece of cedar-bark over it, and by means of cords passed through small...head. It is kept in this manner upwards of a year, and is not I believe attended with much pain. The appearance of the infant, however, while in this state... | |
 | Ross Cox - 1831 - 404 pages
...is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead with a piece of cedar-bark over it, and by means of cords passed through small...head. It is kept in this manner upwards of a year, and is not I believe attended with much pain. The appearance of the infant, however, while in this state... | |
 | 1832 - 402 pages
...is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead, with a piece of cedar-bark over it, and by means of cords passed through small...head. It is kept in this manner upwards of a year, and is not, I believe, attended with much pain. The appearance of the infant, however, while in this state... | |
 | Alexander Warfield Bradford - 1841 - 446 pages
...Immediately after birth, the infant is placed in a kind of oblong cradle, formed like a trough, with moss under it. One end, on which the head reposes, is more...head. It is kept in this manner upwards of a year. * * When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of... | |
 | 1847 - 338 pages
...moss. A padding is laid on the forehead, where it is fastened with a piece of cedar bark and a cord. It is kept in this manner upwards of a year ; and the appearance of the little pappoose, during this cruel imprisonment, is said to be frightful. Its little... | |
 | 1853 - 390 pages
...birth, the infant is placed in a kind of oblong cradle, formed like a trough, with moss tinder it. The end on which the head reposes is more elevated than...head. It is kept in this manner upwards of a year, smd the process is not, I believe, attended with much pain. The appearance of the infant however, while... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead, with a piece of cedar-bark over it, and by means of cords passed through small...pressed against the head. It is kept in this manner above a year, and is not, I believe, attended \vith much pain. The appearance of the infant, however,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead, with a piece of cedar-bark over it, and by means of cords passed through small...pressed against the head. It is kept in this manner above a year, and is not, I believe, attended with much pain. The appearance of the infant, however,... | |
 | 1870 - 452 pages
...is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead, with a piece of cedar-bark over it, and by means of cords passed through small...year, and the process is not, I believe, attended with pain. The head never afterwards recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty,... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead, with a piece of cedar-bark over it, and by means of cords passed through small...year, and the process is not, I believe, attended with pain. The head never afterwards recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty,... | |
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Immediately after birth the infant is placed in a kind of oblong cradle formed like a trough, with moss under it. One end, on which the head reposes, is more elevated than the rest. A padding is then placed on the forehead with a piece of cedar-bark over... 
