jval- (Glad you mentioned the aboriginal art aspect-like what you have been adding- very thoughtful stuff!) --That's because it seems that ANCIENT cultures did a lot of caricuring and human body distortion- Hawaiian Tiki's come to mind immediately! BIG HEADS on little bodies. It seems some of it was actually done with a sense of HUMOR too, not just to be scary or weird. The whole Easter Island Aku-Aku statues are of course 90% BIG HEADS on little bodies- and these islanders were VERY SERIOUS about this. Especially to make the out of GIANT stone blocks and move them great distances in big arrays, all facing in the same direction. INCA and MAYAN cultures also show caricurized dolls and worship items. A great deal of INCA-MAYA art could almost be "characturized" as TOON ART! (At least from a layman point of view- and some fun-loving archeologists).