30 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ BULL. 65 
With almost every skeleton could be made out traces of baskets, a 
few fragments of which were recovered; they appeared to have been 
Jaid over the hips and heads, sometimes below the back. Bits of 
textile fabric were also paraflined and are of interest for comparison 
with those found in the cliff-houses. With many of the skeletons 
were beads of stone, shell, or bone, most of these occurring near 
the necks; the percentage of such ornaments was much higher 
with the bodies of children than with those of adults. Two groups 
of small objects were found. One, from just below the shoulders 
of a large adult male (or perhaps on the breast of another skeleton 
lying directly underneath), consisted of 13 chipped points, several 
smooth pebbles, a bone whistle, and a few small beads; there were 
also parts of the jaws of two prairie dogs (?) and a lump of red 
ochre. The whole seemed to have been inclosed in a skin pouch, 
portions of which could be seen in the earth. The second lot came 
from the back of the skull of an elderly male; in it were chipped 
points, a bone whistle, a stone pipe, olivella shell beads, and a gray 
substance which appears to be meal. This material may also have 
been in a bag, though no traces of a bag remained; a rotted basket of 
indeterminate shape, found in contact with the objects, may perhaps 
have been the container. 
At the top of Cist B, above the highest of the burials, there 
was a pocket of burned human bones, broken up in small pieces. 
They were apparently the remains of a single adult. In the flattish 
bottom of the cist there was a circular depression 1 foot 5 inches 
across and 10 inches deep (pl. 9). Wedged down in this, but of 
course more than filling it, was the much rotted skeleton of an elderly 
female, lying in a flexed position with the face down. In the 
bottom of the depression, under the body, lay a round, flat cake of 
an earthy yellow substance. This had been made by grinding 
ochreous sandstone, mixing it with a little clay for a binder, and 
molding it into its present form. Faint finger marks may be seen on 
its surface. Diameter, about 6 inches; thickness, 3 inches. The cake 
is shown in situ in plate 9. 
Cist C (pl. 8, b, left side of picture) was 4 feet deep and 2 feet 8 
inches in ciandhere Like A and B, the pit was roughly jar-shaped 
and had been cut down into the hard, homogeneous peer: with a 
digging tool, the marks of which, in the form of vertical grooves, 
were visible all about the sides. In this cist there were no stone slabs 
about the bottom. The filling around the bodies was soft, fire, red 
earth such as may be produced by crumbling the hardpan. Skeletons 
1 and 2 were adults; No. 1 was in a semireclining position with the 
head against the east side of the cist (this is the skeleton which ap- 
pears in pl. 8, &); the knees were drawn up, but the flexion was less 
