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THE COLLECTION OF OSTEOLOGICAL MATERIAL FROM MACHU PICCHU. 



At location 40. the remains of two adult women (Ost. Coll. 3191 and 3192) and one 

 infant lay on the sloping surface of a broad shelf of rock, where the mummies had probably 

 rested in the contracted position until decay of the softer tissues and the wrappings caused 

 the bones to fall apart. The first of these individuals was a woman of the mountain type, 

 about twenty-five years of age; the other woman was older and her skull exhibited the 



FiGUKE },■]. — View of tile entrance to the large cave with locations 40-43. Tlie Indian is Alvarez. Photo- 

 graph by the author. 



pronounced fronto-occipital flattening of the coast. In the foreground of text-figure 39. a 

 femur and tiljia of this individual may be seen, still united by some of the dried tissues 

 of the knee-joint. A curious incident occiuTed with regard to these bones. My Indians 

 Alvarez and Richartc begged a few shreds of the desiccated muscle-fiber which, as they 

 seriously informed me, they intended to add to the ordinary contents of their ollas for 



