The skull deformation among the Maya

The skull deformation was quite accepted among the Maya, who practiced for several centuries, until as a sign of ethnic identity and social hierarchy.

To generate this modification was a task that corresponded to the mother of the newborn and the main instrument was a cunita of wood as stated in various representations.

It seems that this practice was accompanied by several festivities that lasted for months and that they had in common devote the identity and the place that should have the new member of the family within the community and the cosmos.

The act of repeated head wrap, cover, masajearla and squeeze it, had constituted measures educational, medical, religious, and also prevention against damages such as loss of vital energy. It was a family activity that was part of the rearing of children, maya and her unparalleled western could be the first communion or baptism.

In the image we can see a cranium modified part of the room, bodies, faces, and people of @museoamparo