54 THE COLLECTION OF OSTEOLOGICAL MATERIAL FROM MACHU PICCHU. 



The long bones of the llama may have been split in order that the marrow could be eaten 

 by the friends of the deceased. In some places, it is known to have been the practise of 

 the persons who had charge of mummies to consume the offerings of food made to the dead 

 during the annual festivals. 



Mention has already been made of the occurrence in Graves 4 and 9 of pointed weaver's 

 tools made from llama bones. Another implement of the same kind (Ost. Coll. 3382) was 

 obtained from this burial cave (Plate IV, figure 10). Indian customs are slow to change, 

 and this is an ideal weaver's tool. Even near Cuzco, the native women to-day use points 

 or bodkins of the same style and material. When, during my stay at the latter city, I 

 expressed a wish to secure one of recent make for the collection of the Expedition, the 

 Director's orderly. Morales, who was indebted to me for a few cigarettes and some small 

 change, forthwith acquired one by sleight of hand from his mother-in-law. The new piece 

 (Plate IV, figure 12) differs in no important way from the antique bodkins that I collected 

 later, except that it possesses a higher lustre and is redolent of guinea-pig stew and other 

 mysteries appropriate to the Cusquenian menage, of which scire iiefas. Evidently tools 

 of this kind have no chronological value. 



The complete list of articles found in this cave includes, besides those already mentioned, 

 the following pieces, most of which are shown on Plates II, IV and XIII : M. P. 499, Ingot 

 of bronze. M. P. 767, Pin; probably silver. M. P. 815, Plate. M. P. 827 and 828, Pair 

 of ladles or plates. M. P. 902 and 903, Pair of pelike-shaped jugs. M. P. 943, Chicha 

 jug. M. P. 968, Small broken ladle or plate. M. P. 1887, Hammer-stone. M. P. 1025, 

 Broken ladle or plate. 



