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and protected only by a single flat slab placed close above it. The 
burial was accompanied by the decayed remains of a fur-cloth 
blanket and of a coiled basket, and below was an almost completely 
rotted cradle made of thin twigs tied together with ornamental lash- 
ings of human hair. 
Summing up the evidence as to burial customs, we find that the 
bodies were placed, often in reclining positions, in the bottoms of 
the cists. No attempt at roofing the graves seems to have been made, 
sand merely having been heaped in over the corpses. Wrappings of 
fur cloth were almost invariably used, supplemented occasionally, 
as nearly as we could tell, by portions of worn-out or deliberately 
cut-open twined bags. Offerings were numerous and varied, but 
the one standard gift _ 
to the dead seems to 
have been coiled bas-  .’-*: Pe ti, 
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found burials at all --:;:." Pints ates ee 
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were always accom-  30i70% 
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such basket. As to (34°37: 
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very reliable, owing to ityesifhic pce ee 
the generally confused 
condition of the ceme- 
tery. It may be said, 
however, that no such packing in of bodies as was noted at 
Sayodneechee took place here. On the other hand, most of 
the cists in Cave I undoubtedly held more than a single corpse. 
The commonest allotment seems to have been one adult and one or 
two infants. 
Some of the bodies were evidently mudded into the cists at the 
time of interment, as many bones and partly “mummified” limbs 
were found incased in masses of hardened adobe (fig. 31). This 
hardening could scarcely have been due in every case to the action 
of liquids freed from the bodies during decomposition, since many 
of them were desiccated rather than decayed. Mr. John Wetherill, 
who visited the cave while the work was in progress, told us that he 
had seen similar adobe packing in some of the Basket Maker burials 
in Grand Gulch. 
1Fewkes (1914, p. 5) reports mudded-in burials from the lower Mimbres in southern 
New Mexico, 
Fic. 31.—Cross section of Cist 6, showing bones en- 
cased in adobe. 
