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Figure 5. — View of Cave 3 after the protecting wall had been partly removed. A human skull and other 

 bones may be seen on the rough floor. Photograph by Hiram Bingham. 



FiGLTRE 6. — Floor plan of Cave 3, showing human bones in the two compartments of the cave, the com- 

 partment first entered being denoted by the letter A, and the inner compartment by B. 



Cave 3. 



This burial cave, which was not far from tlie two preceding, was also beneath a large 

 bowlder. The photograph reproduced in text-figure 5 shows a human skeleton just as it 

 appeared on the floor of the cave. I have indicated the position of these bones more clearly 

 in text-figure 6. The skeleton (Ost. Coll. 3157) is that of a woman of about thirty-five 

 years of age, the skull being of the oblong type usually found in the mountain regions. 

 While the skeleton is of robust proportions, necrosis of the right maxilla has been associated 

 with alveolar abscess, and the left femur shows an extensive periostitis. Photographs and 



