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January 5, 2004
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Washington State, United States
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Early 1900s
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Edward S. Curtis
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"'A great mark of buty,' the flattened foreheads [as shown on this Wisham Indian] of the Pacific Northwest and other tribes west of the Rockies earned them the collective name Flatheads. The effect was achieved, [19th-century explorer Meriwether] Lewis explained, . . . 'by compressing the head between two boards while in a State of infancy. . . . '"
—Text from the National Geographic book Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery, 1998
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