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Around the neck is a necklace or collar made of pieces of quills cut 

 from the wing-feathers of some large bird. The pieces are about an 

 inch long, and the size about that of the wing-quills of a chicken. There 

 is no pattern proper. The pieces extend lengthwise of the collar, about 

 ten of them being placed side by side, making the width of the collar, 

 about 2^ inches. Underneath this collar is another of similar work- 

 manship considerably decayed. No weapons were found save pieces of 

 nine or ten arrows, some with metal points, the others pointed with 

 tlint. Fragments of a bridle and saddle wero found, the leathered work 

 reduced to dust. The bridle-bit was a very primitive afiair, but appar- 

 ently made by a white man. The saddle was of Indian workmaushi}) — 

 a sort of "tree" made of bones. The man was of middle height and 

 fifty to fifty-five years of age at his death. His hair, which is about 15 

 inches long, is slightly streaked with gray in front. He evidently died 

 of an acute disease, since there is no sign of wasting sickness nor of 

 bodily injury. The body was not embalmed nor was any special effort 

 made to preserve it. The brain and internal organs have not been 

 touched, the preservation of the body being due to the climate, aided 

 to some extent possibly by chemical agencies within the cave itself (in 

 places in the reef near by, the rocks are impregnated with petroleum, 

 etc.). The flesh has dried up and shrunken to the bones. The weight 

 of the body is about 25 pounds. 



