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THE COLLECTION OF OSTEOLOGICAL MATERL\L FROM MACIIU PICCIIU. 



In the first and highest of the three communicating chambers, at the location marked A 

 in the diagrams, we found the skeletal remains of a woman (Ost. Coll. 3201) and a child 

 (Ost. Coll. 3202). The woman was about thirty-five years of age and of the highland 

 t3'pe. As the child was only six years of age, the dolichocephalic form of its skull has little 



racial significance. 



Figure 41. — View of the rock-shelter above Graves 44, 45 and 46. The Indians arc .Mvarez and Richarte. 

 Photograph by the author. 



In tlie second chamber (B) lay liie bones of a young woman of the liighland type (Ost. 

 Coll. 3203), another skeleton supposed to be female, with fragmentary skull, and a quantity 

 of potsherds. In the third or lowest chamber (C), which was not nearly so dry as the 

 other chambers, we found a badly decayed female skeleton and many more potsherds. When 



