Cranial Modification | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

An elongated forehead is often a sign of cranial modification, in which head flattening or binding intentionally alters the shape of the skull. This was a form of ritual beautification common among Mesoamerican and native Andean peoples.

Adapted from

Bonnie Pitman, ed., "Seated figure with upraised knee (1983.50)," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 37.
Carol Robbins, "Seated figure with upraised knee (1983.50)," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, ed. Suzanne Kotz (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1997), 183.
Carol Robbins, Label text [1983.50], A. H. Meadows Galleries, 2010.
Carol Robbins, Label text [1968.20], A. H. Meadows Galleries, 2010.

NOTES

Changed title of note and first sentence to remove the term "deformation" and replace with "modification" at the request of Michelle Rich. (ES 5/27/2021)

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253365560: UMO. [Caption] Skull with cranial deformation (deliberate deformity of the skull), 200 to 100 BC, Nazca, Peru. Source: Didier Descouens (own work), Wikimedia Commons, accessed: June 16, 2015, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/D%C3%A9formation_P%C3%A9ruvienne_MHNT.jpg.

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