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Skeleton 6, elderly female, 6 feet southwest of skeleton 5, lay on 
bedrock 46 inches from the surface, on left side, knees drawn up but 
not tightly flexed, right hand in front of face, left on breast. Head 
southeast. The bones were crushed and disarranged by heavy pres- 
sure, the left radius and ulna having been pushed 3 inches away 
from their junction with the humerus, the ribs broken and wrapped 
down over the vertebra. Over the grave were three cedar sticks ar- 
ranged in parallel order as in grave 5. There were no offerings. 
All these burials were close to bedrock. The bodies seem to have 
been placed loosely flexed in oval excavations which were then cov- 
ered with cedar poles or small logs and probably further protected 
by cedar bark. When the interments were made the ground was 
evidently much less hard than it is now, for definite outlines of the 
graves cannot be made out. The earth all about the graves is dis- 
colored and disturbed to the bottom; probably the dead were placed, 
as they seem to have been in the Montezuma Creek region,! in the 
village midden. All the heads pointed in a southerly direction, up 
the valley, and those of the outcropping skeletons found here and 
there in the pass, whose positions could be determined, followed, 
with one exception,” the same rule. This record applies only to eight 
or nine burials, and may therefore be only the result of coincidence. 
One further point of interest in connection with these skeletons is 
the fact that while generous offerings of mortuary pottery were 
usually deposited, most of the vessels were distinctly poor ones, small, 
badly fired, cracked, or otherwise imperfect. This is contrary to the 
general rule in southwestern cemeteries. 
POTTERY HILL 
During the progress of the work on the Camp Cemetery a heavy 
rain so filled our trench that digging had to be discontinued. We 
took this opportunity to send our whole force along the sand banks 
below the ruins in search of such small objects as usually are found 
on village sites after a rain. The result was a harvest of arrow- 
heads, pottery disks, beads, pendants, and other like specimens. 
While thus engaged we fotnd, about a quarter of a mile below the 
Camp Cemetery, another slope, topped by ruins, literally covered 
with potsherds and, what was of most interest, showing seven or 
eight outcroppings of human bones. Work was accordingly begun 
here when we had finished our other trench. Test pits were dug 
and a long cut opened which revealed a most peculiar state of affairs. 
There was a surface layer 8 inches to 1 foot thick, composed of 
sand, small pieces of broken sandstone (débris of construction ?), 
1 Kidder, 1910, p. 358. 
2This skeleton was in an upright sitting position, facing southward. 
