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THE COLLECTION OF OSTEOLOGICAL MATERIAL FROM MACUU PICCUU. 



The skulls are good specimens; one (Ost. Coll. 3160), which is presumably female, is of 

 the brachycephalic type of the coastal people, while the other (Ost. Coll. 3 161), which is 

 undoubtedly female, exhibits the style of deformation known as Aymara and practised in the 

 highlands. This skull is very similar to that shown in Plate XXVIII. The first individual 

 described from this cave was about thirty-five years of age, the latter a few years younger. 



C.WE 6. 



The next burial cave visited was at about the same level as those previously examined, but 

 a little further around toward the north slope of the mountain. The cave and its contents 

 are shown in text-figures 7 and 8. 



l^'iuuRE 9. — View of Cave 7. Because of the irregularity of tlie ground it was possible to pliotograpli 

 little more than the low sill of stones, after cutting away the jungle growth in the foreground. Photograph 

 by the author. 



The skeletal material found here was meager and fragmentary. It represents a small 

 woman about twenty-five years of age, whose brachycephalic skull shows her aftiliation with 

 the people of the coast. Besides the skull were found the mandible and the shafts of a tibia 

 and of a humerus, the long bones being of small size and having their articular ends decayed. 

 No other bones were seen. Two pottery vessels had been placed at the grave. One of these 

 (M. P. 834) is a perfect deep two-handled dish of fine red ware, which lay on its side near 

 the skull. The other which was not recovered intact was a small dish of the same general 

 form as the first. The incomplete condition of the skeleton is hard to explain. The protect- 

 ing wall at the front of the cave had already been thrown down or had fallen, when we first 

 visited the place, and it is possible that the grave had been previously desecrated by treasure- 

 hunters or by wild beasts. The presence of a whole pot, however, argues against the 

 likelihood of treasure-hunters having been there, for even if they did not wish to carry away, 

 for their own use, this plain and not readily saleable, yet still serviceable vessel, they would 

 probably have destroyed it, according to their wont. 



