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and was tied up in a single piece of ancient cotton cloth of natural 

 color and poor quality. The bones were those of an adult male. 

 Again the skull showed the " Aymara " deformation. No earthen- 

 ware or other articles were buried with the body. A decorated 

 moderate-sized jar of dark brown color was shown to us later at the 



RUIN OF HUARATO 



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Fig. 2. — Sketch of Huarato, showing approximately the lay and ground-plan 

 of the peculiar ruins of the people with the Aymara head deformation (to 

 the north of the river). 



hacienda and was said to have been dug out from another burial 

 in these ruins. 



It is evident that these ancient remains of Huarato present a 

 very interesting intrusion into the coast region of people from 

 somewhere in the mountainous country farther to the east, and the 

 burials at this place, hardly touched as yet, deserve a careful excava- 

 tion. 



