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age, alveolar abscesses and necrosis of the maxillje, with loss of several teeth, had brought 

 aiaout considerable alteration in the form of the facial bones, the shape of the lower jaw 

 being almost senile and the zygomata reduced to extreme tenuity. Syphilitic alterations in 

 the femora and tibiae may be seen in the photographs reproduced on Plate XXXIV, and 

 the skiagrams of these same bones, shown on Plate XXXV, will be found of further 

 interest. 



In the recess marked 27, at the southwest corner of the terrace some fragmentary 

 membra disjecta of another burial were still to be seen, although it is very likely that native 

 treasure-hunters had already visited the place. The human bones were of practically no 

 value, but a good bone bodkin (Ost. Coll. 3390; Plate IV, figure 11) was found in the 

 recess. In some irregular caves at the east end of the terrace there were a few potsherds, 

 belonging to a large decorated aryballus, and a saucer handle, beautifully modeled in the 

 form of a llama's head.* 



Cave 28. 



This very small cave in the lower grave region yielded nothing except a worthless sherd 

 of a large vessel and the magnificent aryballus, or "donii" as my Indians called it (M. P. 

 892), shown on Plate VII, figure i. Although we dug the ground over in and about this 

 cave, we found neither bones nor any other relics of an interment. Why the fine vessel 

 was there, remains an archaeological problem. 



Cave 29. 



The cave to which this number was assigned was little more than a niche behind an 

 irregular ledge or bowlder, a few hundred feet east of the city. A quantity of broken 

 pottery lay on the surface of the mound of earth thrown out when the place was prepared 

 for the reception of the dead, and many other pieces of pottery were found inside the niche 

 with the skeletal remains of the three persons. The first individual (Ost. Coll. 3176) 

 was an adult woman, whose broad, low-vaulted skull is shown on Plate XVIII. The second 

 individual (Ost. Coll. 3177), also female, had a skull of very different form. From the 

 views of this skull on Plate XIX, it will be seen that the mesaticephalic cranial index of 

 79.3 is slightly affected by the irregularity of the occipital squama. The third inmate of 

 the cave, a young person about fifteen years of age, was represented by fragmentary material. 



The artifacts collected at this place of burial are enumerated in the following list, the 

 first six items being articles that were found inside the cave, while the other four were 

 exposed on the rubble outside. The pottery is shown on Plates VIII and IX. 



Pelike-shaped jug. 



Two-handled dish. 



Small silver (?) pin. 



Small two-handled dish or olla. 



Ladle or plate with conventional bird's head handle. 



Beaker-shaped olla. 



Small two-handled dish. 



Pelike-shaped jug. 



Pot-lid. 



Ladle or plate with loop handle. 



* Cf. Hiram Bingham, "The Story of Machu Picchu," Nat. Geog. Mag., Feb. 1915, page 209. 



