[rarestia]

I guess we had sharp instruments at the time so that they could shave their heads but is that an artistic license thing?

[Sacajaweau]

The structure is right of course...but everything else including the flying ears is license....thin lips, fat lips, thin, pudgy,......blah, blah, blah...

I would like to see 20 of these experts in separate rooms produce almost an identical form....then I might be a believer....unless they went to the same school.

[Lonely Bull]

I guess we had sharp instruments at the time so that they could shave their heads but is that an artistic license thing?

Deformity
Ms Barber’s work revealed that the Viste Boy had scaphocephaly (“boat-head”), a congenital deformity which makes the skull long and narrow. She left the modelled head hairless to show this.