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The Mangbetu women:
The Mangbetu people had a distinctive look and this was partly due to their elongated heads. At birth the heads of babies were tightly wrapped with cloth to give their heads the elongated look.
The custom of skull elongation called by the natives Lipombo, was a status symbol among the Mangbetu ruling classes, it denoted majesty, beauty, power & higher intelligence.
Deformation usually begins just a month after birth for the next couple of years until the desired shape has been reached or the child rejects the apparatus.
It began dying out in the 1950s with the arrival of the Europeans & Westernization. It was outlawed by the Belgian government who ruled over colonial Congo. This deformation usually did not affect the brain as long as intracranial pressure remains the same as with a normal person, the brain should/was able to adapt and grow into the new shape of the skull resulting in no damages.
The brain is a developmentally plastic organ and grows(expands) in the shape it's given

Source: Historyville

Hehehe ancestors of the flat head tribe

They must be related to those conical shape heads...

goestohell:
They must be related to those conical shape heads...

Nothing like that in Naija, although everyone knows the group of people who usually have weird hesdahapes in Nigeria.

They are also the group in Nigeria with any known connection to Congo!

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scholes0:
Nothing like that in Naija, although everyone knows the group of people who usually have weird hesdahapes in Nigeria.

There is a certain group of people with cone heads in Nigeria. Even the crown of their traditional rulers are cone shaped.

goestohell:
There is a certain group of people with cone heads in Nigeria. Even the crown of their traditional rulers are cone shaped.

That only exist in your imagination. Some people in Nigeria have battered head shapes and heads shaped like beer parlor benches and 0 ‘ogor’ which every other homo sapiens have.

90% of Nigerians can spot then from 10 miles away from their head shapes alone.

There was a certain Native American people that did this kind of head-shaping. The Anasazi, I think.

SexyCrixus25:
The Mangbetu women:
The Mangbetu people had a distinctive look and this was partly due to their elongated heads. At birth the heads of babies were tightly wrapped with cloth to give their heads the elongated look.
The custom of skull elongation called by the natives Lipombo, was a status symbol among the Mangbetu ruling classes, it denoted majesty, beauty, power & higher intelligence.
Deformation usually begins just a month after birth for the next couple of years until the desired shape has been reached or the child rejects the apparatus.
It began dying out in the 1950s with the arrival of the Europeans & Westernization. It was outlawed by the Belgian government who ruled over colonial Congo. This deformation usually did not affect the brain as long as intracranial pressure remains the same as with a normal person, the brain should/was able to adapt and grow into the new shape of the skull resulting in no damages.
The brain is a developmentally plastic organ and grows(expands) in the shape it's given

Source: Historyville

this culture come from ancient egypt!