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other house refuse, the debris of building-, sherds of pottery and other 

 rejecta, and drifted sand. In this refuse the dead were buried 

 (fig. 62). Beneath the deposit, at a depth of fifteen feet, the founda- 

 tion walls of houses, built at two periods earlier than Hawikuh on the 

 summit, were encountered (fig. 63) with burials of those who had 

 occupied them, the graves being in the rooms, under the walls, and 

 outside the houses, but rarely accompanied with pottery vessels 

 or other artifacts such as were generally placed with the dead. The 



Fig. 64. — Remains of a partly dismembered burial found four feet deep in 

 the refuse, without accompaniment. Photograph by E. F. Coffin. 



skeletons in most of these older graves were usually incomplete, as 

 if purposely dismembered at the time of burial (fig. 64) ; and in one 

 instance the bones almost without exception had been deliberately 

 broken (fig. 65). In addition to these two forms of burial the 

 Zuhis of Hawikuh also cremated some of their dead and deposited 

 the incinerated bones in jars, which were buried with the usual vessels 

 of food and water. Evidently the personal ornaments of the dead 

 were buried with the bodies in these instances, as calcined shell 



