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gether is very well proportioned, and would average as well as 

 most of our North American Indian skulls in point of develop- 

 ment. The triturating surfaces of the teeth show an abnormal 

 amount of wear for an individual the age that one would judge 

 this to be. This is owing, no doubt, to the large amount of 

 grit found in some of the food used, such as shell-fish, and fish 

 cast upon the shore, together with the tough meat of the 

 guanaco, which must have constituted their principal food. A 

 good view is shown of the sand-hill blowouts in figure 1. The 



Fig. 1. View showing Inirial ground in ssindhills at San Bias where pottery and 



skull Xo. 1 was found. 



exact spot where the specimen was found is marked by the 

 small cross. The ever-moving sand here ofi'ers an excellent 

 opportunity to find good skeletons, quite a number having been 

 discovered here. 



Plate XL, figures 1 to 10, show some photographs of relics 

 found associated with the San Bias specimen. It is interesting 

 to note that nearly all of the pottery is of the incised variety, 

 made by a process much practiced by the old Pueblo Indians, 

 namely, of indenting by a notched piece of wood or bone. 

 Several of the pieces show much skill in their manufacture, as 

 well as fine taste in the decorations. The design on No. 1, the 

 largest piece in the collection, a portion of a bowl probably ten 

 inches in diameter, is all incised work. The pattern appears to 



