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still attached to it and to be arranged in a very elaborate coiffure. A 
fuller description of this object is given on pages 190-191. 
The upper filling of the cist showed a thin stratum of compacted 
rubbish a few inches below the top; in the débris below this were a 
sandal, fragments of skin pouches, and a small coiled basket (see pl. 
76, 2) containing a three-pendant neck ornament and a flint flake. 
Above the compacted stratum, just under the surface sand, lay a 
single sandal. All these specimens had apparently been dislodged 
from their original positions by the looters. When the cist was en- 
tirely emptied, the bottom was found to be filled with a thick, 
saucer-shaped cake of adobe, laid on a foundation of charcoal and 
ushes mixed with sand (fig. 30). 
Cist B (1914).—This cist was near the eastern wall of the cave, 
on the slope below the main cist area. Only a few stones of the in- 
closure remained. In it was part of a “mummified” adult torso, 
lacking the head. It was apparently in its original position, as bits 
cf its fur-cloth wrappings were about it and it lay in sand presum- 
ably darkened by its own decomposition. Near by in the sand were 
found fragments of another adult, pieces of two very coarse baskets 
(see pl. 76, a), and the cranium and mandible of an elderly male. 
This skull probably belonged to one of the broken “ mummies.” 
Cist C (1914) lay a little outside of the main group and close to 
the cave wall. Its preservation from disturbance is probably due to 
this fact. It was a small slab inclosure of the usual type and was 
not roofed over in any way. Under the sand which filled it was the 
desiccated body of a female infant lying on its back, wrapped with 
fur cloth, and covered with a piece of mountain-sheep hide tanned 
with the hair on. Further covering was supplied by part of an old 
cradle of cedar bark and yucca leaves, and over all lay a large, flat 
coiled basket (see pls. 73 and 76, h). 
Cist EF, a circular slab inclosure, had evidently been plundered; 
there remained in it, however, a stone pipe (fig. 94, @), part of a clay 
pipe (fig. 94, d), a small brush of stiff fibers (pl. 74, ef), and a 
portion of a purse or pouch of tanned skin. From this cist also came 
a bundle of feathers tied up with string; the identification of the 
feathers will be found on page 177. 
Cist F was interesting in that it had quite surely never been used 
for burial. This was proved by the fact that it was covered when 
found by an undisturbed roof of small limbs topped by several 
inches of brush. It was entirely empty, except for clean sand that 
had sifted in. Its greatest diameter was 3 feet; its depth 2 feet 
6 inches; it lay 3 feet below the surface; to this more than usual 
depth it probably owes its escape from disturbance. 
The only burial not in a cist was uncovered at d (fig. 28) ; it was 
the skeleton of a very young baby lying at a depth of 1 foot 6 inches 
