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however, they lay on their backs, although a few were placed on 

 their sides ; but there were no flexed burials. Some of the skeletons 

 were a few inches under the surface, others several feet below it. 

 The latter were accompanied by the same kinds of pottery as 

 that accompanying the shallow burials. As a rule, to which there 

 were exceptions, the skeletons were oriented with the head to 

 the east. Double burials in the same grave, infant interments, and 



Fig. 212. — Burial showing position of the effigy of an unknown animal at 

 the pelvis, and carved deer tibia (shown in fig. 211) between vase and the 

 skull. (Photograph by J. P. Harrington.) 



a skeleton of a woman with skull fragments of an embryo in place 

 were noted. In one grave was found the skull of a dog, and bones of 

 other mammals and antelope horns occurred in several graves. 



One of the most interesting graves was that which had the skeleton 

 encased or covered by a hard crust of adobe (fig. 214), but this seems 

 to have been the only instance of this form of burial. In no instance 

 was the skeleton enclosed in a stone cyst as occurs so often at Wupatki. 

 Individual stones standing on edge were sometimes found, but whether 

 these were placed in that position for a purpose could not be deter- 



