physiognamy

Updated: May 27, 2025

I have observed Some high acqualine noses among them but they are extreemly reare. the most remarkable trate in their physiognamy is the peculiar flatness and width of the forehead which they Artificially obtain by compressing the head between two boards while in a State of infancy, and from which it never afterwards perfectly recovers.

William Clark - The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806