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than in the other burials. ‘No. 2, beside it, was in an almost identical 
attitude, but had the head against the back wall of the pit. Under 
No. 1 lay the head of No. 3, also an adult; this skeleton, as well as 
No. 4 (an infant), had been disturbed and pushed against the north 
side of the cist. Some of the bones were in natural order, others were 
mixed and disarranged; the infant skeleton was almost entirely dis- 
articulated. These two bodies had evidently been the primary burials 
and had originally occupied the lower central part of the cist; when 
the other two (Nos. 1 and 2). were interred they pushed aside and 
crowded down the original burials. Scattered among the bones of 
Nos. 3 and 4 were 50 or 60 olivella-shell beads. Each of the four 
bodies had been accompanied with one or more baskets. 
Cist D was the smallest of the four. It measured 2 feet 6 inches 
at its point of greatest diameter, and was 3 feet 6 inches deep. It 
had three stone slabs against the lower sides, and showed the usual 
vertical pick-marks. In it were the skeletons of two children—No. 1 
flexed on the back, and having at the neck a small loaf-shaped stone, 
afterwards identified as an atlatl weight (see p. 180 and pl. 88, ¢) ; 
No. 2, which lay flexed and face down, had at the chin two beads of 
abalone shell and one of satin spar. Baskets had been used to cover 
these bodies, but, as in the other cists, they were completely decayed. 
No further burial places were found, although the rest of the cave 
was cleared to hardpan. As over the cist zone, there was also over 
the whole rear of the cave a layer of disturbed dark soil containing 
charcoal, animal bones, some corncobs, and a few potsherds, princi- 
pally corrugated, one black and white. Nine feet behind the cists, 
and with its top just below the crust of sheep dung, was found a jar 
of rough dark ware, bearing broad, flat coils at the neck; it had been 
cracked and mended with pinon gum, and the neck bound, for 
greater strength, with yucca leaves. The cover, a rough sandstone 
slab, was in place, but the vessel was empty. Close by was a hole in 
the dark soil, presumably dug to hold another jar. 
The last 10 or 12 feet at the back of the cave were covered, below 
the sheep dung, by a layer of ashes very uniformly a foot thick 
(see fig. 8, a). This ash bed was somewhat puzzling, as it was so 
evenly laid down and extended so far back into the cave and so 
far under the sloping sides that it seemed scarcely possible that it 
could be lying as deposited. While there were no defined fireplaces 
in it, the layer was somewhat thicker and heavier toward the front 
on the north side (see fig. 9) ; possibly the fires were made at this point 
and the ashes were redistributed by wind. The roof of the cave is 
heavily smoked above the whole bed. The ashes contained one or 
two potsherds (none were in the disturbed layer below the ash bed), 
a small coiled basket lacking the bottom, and several pieces of burned 
human bones; among the latter were a fragment of a jaw and the , 
