FLATHEAD INDIANS

a name applied to several different American tribes that fiatten the skull cf the infant by pre ure. The practice is now nearly extinct. In the United States the Catawa and Choctaw in the south-east were known as Flatheads, but nearly all the Muskhogean, Natchez, and Tonika tribes were addicted to the practice of artificial deformation of the head. On the north-west eoast most of the Salish of Puget Sound and British Columbia, the Chinook of Cohimbia Kiver, and many of the Indians of Vancouver Island were known collectively as Flatheads. But the Salish proper, now known in official reports as Flatheads, never fiattened the head. Cranial deformation is a widespread practice in parts of Europe, Asia, Ocean i a, and America, and is one of the most striking illustrations of the spread of culture in ancient times.