THE GRAVES. 4' 



"buen fortuna." They even advised me to do the same. Although keenly interested in this 

 survival of an ancient savage superstition, I need hardly add that I abstained from acquiring 

 the courage and virtues of the aborigines in the time-honored manner. 



The infant mentioned above was probably less than a year old. Very little was left of 

 its skeleton. A plant-spine pin and a few potsherds were the only artifacts collected at this 

 location. 



At location 41, the greater part of two adult skeletons (Ost. Coll. 3194 and 3195) were 

 found, together with the facial portion of the skull of a young person about fifteen years of 



Figure 38. — Plan of the large cave with locations 40--I3. 



age. The skull of the first individual might pass for female had not the pelvis been found. 

 It is a small male skull of the undeformed highland type. The other adult individual appears 

 to have been a woman of the coast. 



In the narrow recess marked 42 on the diagram lay the fragmentary remains of five 

 individuals. Four of the skulls (Ost. Coll. 3196, 3197, 3198 and 3199) were fairly well 

 preserved. The first of these skulls, probably male, is shown on Plate XXII. The other 

 skulls are female, two of them being of the undeformed coastal type, while the third (Ost. 

 Coll. 3199) is a typical example of the Aymara deformation. Several views of it are 

 shown on Plate XXIII. The fifth skeleton may represent a much older burial. Very little 

 of it was preserved. 



At location 43, on the topmost shelf of the cave, we found an adult female skeleton (Ost. 

 Coll. 3200). The highly brachycephalic cranial index of this skull is partly due to a slight 

 accidental lateral-occipital flattening, such as frequently resulted from the use of the cradle- 



