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Excerpt from El Palacio, Vol. 20: June 15, 1926 All four of these skulls differ from the skulls of the later Pueblo Indians, - the Pueblos of the stone cities, - in one very remarkable way. They are not deformed. This naturalness of shape is unknown among the Pueblos. All Pueblo babies were carried by their mothers strapped fast to a board. This custom forced the bones at the back of the head to grow in an abnormal, flat tened fashion which is quite clearly evident in every Pueblo cranium recovered from the grave yards of the ancient cities. The preceding Basket Makers evidently lacked this custom. The four skulls of the Denver Museum, as well as other skulls believed to belong to the Basket Maker race and preserved in other museums, still have their natural shape undistorted by the cradle board or by any similar contrivance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.