NO. l8 ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK IN PERU — HRDLICKA -|3 



the fifth 23. But in each case some addition must be made for 

 skulls accidentally reburied and for a few that may have escaped 

 discovery. 



Owing to lack of time, the shorter more eastern part of the Nasca 

 Valley could not be visited, and the same is true about the watersheds 

 of the northeastern branches of the Rio Grande, all of which are 

 said to contain cemeteries as well as other remains of antiquity. 



The burial grounds on the lands of the hacienda of Coyungo repre- 

 sented, as indicated above, in a large measure the Nasca people and 

 Nasca culture. The pottery at the hacienda, of which a collection 

 was seen, was also in the main of the Nasca type, with some aberra- 

 tions. Finallv the cotton-bale mummies were rather common (pi. 



23, fig- 2). 



Coyungo-Ica-Pisco. — The distance from Coyungo to lea is esti- 

 mated at over 80 miles, and up to about 25 miles from lea the road 

 passes over hot barren deserts, which show few traces of the ancient 

 population. At the point just indicated, the road reaches the haci- 

 enda of Ociicajc, a large, shallow, green depression. At a number 

 of sites on the outskirts of this depression are seen mound-like 

 elevations which possibly contain remains of habitations and show 

 burials. At one such place a number of defective skulls on the 

 surface were found to present the interesting highly deformed 

 " flat-head " variety, such as seen before in one of the cemeteries 

 at Chaviha and in two near Coyungo. The bones belonging to these 

 skulls showed also the same moderately developed people as were 

 found in the other cemeteries just cited, and as were general along 

 this part of the coast. 



A brie.f stop was made at this hacienda and one of the owners dem- 

 onstrated to the writer a collection of various objects recovered 

 from the local burial grounds. These specimens, while showing in 

 many points a relation to the Xasca culture, presented a number of 

 differences. Thus for the first time on the coast there were seen 

 bows and arrows. Both were of large size. The how- were simple. 

 The arrows were made of reeds and had long wooden points barbed 

 on one side. A kind of a colored palm-fiber basketry was seen, 

 representing possibly parts of a head gear. The pottery, while 

 showing numerous resemblances to the more ordinary types of the 

 Nasca region, differed from the latter by the absence of certain 

 shapes and in decoration. Furthermore there were signs of wood 

 carving, which is only rarely met with about Xasca. Feather work 



