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We also find it in the Caribbean Islands, and from the skulls and portraits of the ancient Aztecs we are led to believe that they were also microcephalic.
Two creatures of celebrity were Maximo and Bartola, who for twenty-five years have been shown in America and in Europe under the name of the "Aztecs" or the "Aztec children".

They were male and female and very short, with heads resembling closely the bas-reliefs on the ancient Aztec temples of Mexico.

Their facial angle was about 45 degrees, and they had jutting lips and little or no chin.

They wore their hair in an enormous bunch to magnify the deformity.

These curiosities were born in Central America and were possibly half Indian and Negro.


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