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beads were found with the fragments of burned bones. Early 

 Spanish writers speak of the Zuiii custom of cremating the dead. 

 Above these interments, however, and extending to within a few 

 inches of the surface, were the graves of the later people, those 

 who lived in Hawikuh proper. These dead, unlike the more ancient 



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Fig. 67. — Hawikuh. The upper part uf a skele- 

 ton almost completely covered with remains of 

 baskets and corn. Note the prayer-sticks over the 

 pelvis. Photograph by E. F. Coffin. 



burials described, were interred usually with the head directed east- 

 wardly, the body fully clothed, and accompanied with such personal 

 belong'ings as. in the case of women, metates and manos, floor and 

 hair brushes, head-rings used in carrying water jars, mats, baskets, 

 raw material for various manufactures, together with pottery vessels 



