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Indians. All the facts gathered show that this burial chamber was 
built after the main building was constructed, but its age, as compared 
with that of the other compounds, is unknown. In the sand outside 
the walls were found one or two clay vessels containing burnt human 
bones, covered with clay disks, which are supposed to be the partially 
cremated remains of inhabitants of this building, |The two methods 
Fic. 19. Seat in room M, Clan-house 1, looking northeast. 
of disposal of the dead—inhumation and cremation—were p ractised 
in all the compounds of Casa Grande." 
It is sometimes stated that the priests of the Gila compounds were 
always buried in houses while the less-favored classes were cremated, 
their calcined bones being deposited in cinerary urns or vases that later 
were buried on the borders of the mounds where they had been com- 
mitted to the flames. While not able to prove or disprove this theory, 
1 At the present day the Pima bury their dead, and the graves of the shamans are different from those of 
other people. The custom of burning the dead does not now exist among these people. 
