KIDDBR—-GUERNSEY ] ARCHEOLOGICAL. EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 79 
cist were a few bones from the skeleton of an adult and pieces of a 
decayed woven bag. 
Cist 4 was 3 feet in diameter, 20 inches deep, and nearly 2 feet 
below the surface. It had not been deep enough, however, to escape 
the early diggers, and there were left in its bottom only parts of the » 
skeleton of an adult, an adolescent, and an infant. These fragments 
were partly held in place by adobe, with which the bodies had appar- 
ently been mudded in. Shredded flesh and torn and twisted lga- 
ments adhering to the long bones of the adult indicated that the 
missing portions of the body had been ruthlessly wrenched away. 
From the few bones of this skeleton that lay undisturbed, it was seen 
that the corpse had been placed in the cist in a reclining position, 
resting against the side wall. The feet bore square-toed sandals 
(see pl. 69), and at one side were two elaborately woven sandals tied 
together by their laces. The remains of the child and of the adoles- 
cent were so scattered that nothing regarding their original positions 
could be learned. At the bottom of the cist was a peck or more 
of Coreocarpus seeds, solidified by partial decomposition into a 
compact mass; there were also the usual rotted fragments of fur- 
cloth robes and twined bags. Plate 28, 6, shows the cist with the 
loose filling brushed away to expose the bones. 
Cist 6—The burial in this cist had been disturbed and only a few 
bones remained. These were encased in adobe and under them were 
traces of a fine twined bag which appeared to have been originally of 
good size; above the bones lay the rotted remains of a coarser fabric 
and part of a cedar-bark bag. This part of the cave was slightly 
moist, and few specimens in good condition were found in it. 
Cist 9, 3 feet wide, 3 feet 6 inches long, 20 inches deep, held the 
skeleton of a child covered with cedar bark and fragments of a 
coiled basket. The remains had been placed in a large coiled basket 
of which but little was left. Parts of a fur-string blanket were 
found under the body, and about it were bits of a feather string 
that may have served to hold the cedar bark in place around the 
body. At the bottom of the cist lay some small remnants of a 
twilled mat, or possibly of a twilled basket. Most of these crumbled 
at a touch. The bones and wrappings were completely encased. in 
adobe. In another part of the cist were a few bones of an adult, 
a “mummified” foot, a small toy cradle of grass, and a lignite 
bead. The photograph reproduced in plate 29, a, shows the adobe 
mass that contained the child’s body, the foot, and the toy cradle, 
all in situ. 
Cist 10 was slightly more than 38 feet in diameter at the top and 
2 feet 6 inches deep; its saucer-shaped bottom was of hard adobe 
1 foot thick. The upper part was filled with loose rubbish, from 
which were taken two sandals, part of a large woven bag in splendid 
