SMITHSONIAN REPORT. 1956— GAZIN 



1. Blocks in various stages of removal at the El Hatillo excavation. These include the 

 pelvis and two blocks of vertebrae and ribs belonging to the skeleton of the large individual 

 of Eremotherium shown in plate 1. Dr. White (left) is undercutting the pelvis so the 

 plaster jacket will bind while Juan Franco is coating exposed bone with paper. Viviano 

 Valdevieso is further undercutting the third block so that it can be turned over. 



At another place in the El Hatillo excavation a block containing a scapula and some 

 limb and rib material of the sloth is being turned over and removed from the quarry 

 permitting the bottom surface to be trimmed and plastered under less cramped condi- 

 tions. Several other partially defined blocks of bone-bearing matrix can be distinguished 

 in background. 





