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THE COLLECTION OF OSTEOLOGICAL MATERIAL FROM MACHU PICCIIU. 



skiagrams of this bone and also of the right femur, which is not affected by disease, are 

 shown in Plate XXXII. Near the protecting wall a broken beaker-shaped olla was found. 

 Tearing out what seemed at the time to be the continuation of the retaining wall at the far 

 end of the cave, a second chamber, marked B in the diagram, was exposed. Here we found 

 a perfect small pot (M. P. 835)* shown in Plate V, and the poorly preserved skeleton of a 



Figure 7. — View of Cave 6, showing a complete two-handled dish or olla and a fragmentary human skull. 

 Photograph by the author. 



young woman. Tlie pro.ximal symphyses of the humeri ha\-e not fused with the shafts, and 

 the basial suture of the skull is not entirely closed, yet the third molars arc in place and the 

 femora appear to have attained their full length. Tlic latter, however, are tlie smallest nearly 

 adult thigh bones I have seen in the collection. 



♦ This number refers to the Provisional List of Pottery, Bronzes, etc., found at Machu Picchu. 



