KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 69 
and many potsherds; in this were quantities of loose human bones, 
some whole, some broken, none lying in order. Below the top 
stratum the soil was of the same darkish color as that of the 
Camp Cemetery, and also contained charcoal, bones, and a few 
sherds. This deposit was about 4 feet deep, and below it was clear, 
yellow, hard-packed, and evidently undisturbed sand. A hole 7 
feet deep failed to reach bedrock. In the dark earth were found 
five incomplete skeletons partly in order but evidently more or less 
disturbed. In one, for instance, the pelvis, first four vertebra, and 
right leg lay in order, the lower bones of the left leg were in about 
the positions they should have occupied, but the femur was 8 inches 
too high and was half reversed. One incisor tooth was touching the 
pelvis, and a red jar, crushed flat, lay underneath. All the rest 
was missing, save a few ribs and finger bones from the earth above 
and to one side. Traces of a cedar-wood covering could be seen. 
A second disturbed burial, somewhat nearer the surface, consisted 
of both feet, fragments of skull, lower jaw, part of the pelvis, and 
a few ribs, none in order. Among the bones were several olivella 
shells, a large red jar, a black-and-white bowl, and parts of a cedar 
wand (7?) about 2 feet long, loaf-shaped in cross-section and painted 
bright blue. Three feet away was a bone whistle. Here again cedar 
had been used to cover the original interment. 
Only one complete burial was taken out. The skeleton was that 
of an infant of about one year; it lay flexed, head southeast, di- 
rectly upon the undisturbed lower sand at a depth of.4 feet 6 inches. 
In front of the face were two bowls and a little pitcher resting upon 
a sherd from a large black-and-white olla. A selenite pendant was 
under one of the bowls. 
Although we did a great deal of digging on Pottery Hill, hoping 
to encounter graves that had not been cut to pieces, we found 
conditions everywhere the same. Two more pots were taken out, 
as well as several red stone pendants and olivella shells, evidently 
scattered mortuary offerings. The disturbance of this cemetery 
was not the work of man, at least not during modern times, as the 
surface showed no pitting. The only explanation that presented 
itself was that there had occurred a slight slide of the whole hill- 
side which upset the first arrangement of many of the bodies to 
some extent. Then arroyos may have formed in the deposit, washed 
out parts of skeletons, and then themselves filled up again by the 
caving in of their sides; finally there was, perhaps, a general re- 
leveling by wind. The top layer of completely confused bones seems 
to consist of wash from a part of the same cemetery higher up the 
hill which is now completely denuded. 
The day before we left Marsh Pass we discovered burials in a 
large cave above Ruin A; as it was completely explored the fol- 
