Cabana woman in a traditional embroidered hat, Cabanaconde, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Haberdashery: Better than head-smashery

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Back in Pre-Hispanic times, two ethnic groups in the Colca Canyon area of Peru deformed their babies’ skulls — the Collagua into a taller, tapered noggin, the Cabana into a mesa-shaped cranium. Was the Collagua’s headscaping a disturbed bid for…