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MR. CROCKER mentioned, in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London in the beginning of this year, that the Milanows, a coast tribe in North-West Borneo, between Bruni and Tandjong Agri, Sarawak, flatten their heads-by means of pressure in infancy, but not to-the extent of disfigurement, a custom, Mr. Crocker adds, which is peculiar to this, tribe, and occurs nowhere else in the Archipelago.
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MEYER, A. On Artificial Deformation of the Human Skull in the Malay Archipelago . Nature 25, 132–135 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025132b0
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