60 THE COLLECTION OF OSTEOLOGICAL MATERLVL FROM MACIIU PICCHU. 



that lay on the surface seem to have been charred, when part of the jungle was burned 

 over in the search for graves. A few pieces of llama bones show that flesh of these useful 

 animals was provided for the spiritual sustenance of the persons buried here. 



Cave 6o. 



This burial cave was "about half-way down the mountainside, east of the city." The 

 record shows that the Indian collectors brought in the following articles : 



"A badly broken human skull and mandible, some ribs and other bones, some sherds, a 

 pierced bone whirligig, two bronze champes, and a pretty little olla with broken handle." 



The skull is female, adult, rather small, and appears to have been of the undeformed 

 coast type. The human bones that accompany it — cervical vertebrae, ribs, and long bones — are 

 few in number and represent two individuals, one young and the other adult. A few bones 

 of a medium-sized dog and of a llama were found, and there are also some rodent bones 

 that can be referred to Abrocoma sp. 



Cave 6i. 



This was "half-way down the mountainside east of the city." The list of the contents 

 of the grave shows that, in addition to the greater part of one human skeleton (Ost. Coll. 

 3219), a number of valuable articles were found. 



A pair of beautifully decorated broken ladles or plates (Plate VII, figures 2 and •3), with 

 handles in the form of realistic human heads, "were placed about six inches from the skull, 

 one on each side," and a thin bronze disk* (M. P. 539) was held by a strip of cloth to the 

 side of the skull — "to the ear," the Indians said. Several bone pendants and some pierced 

 teeth were found, also a number of small shell or stone beads that were attached to the 

 base of the skull by dried mud, thus escaping notice until the bones were examined in the 

 laboratory. Several excellent pieces of pottei-y, though not so attractive as those already 

 mentioned, have been restored from the sherds taken from the cave. The list of artifacts 

 also includes two diminutive bells similar to that figured by Professor Bingham in the National 

 Geographic Magazine, February 191 5, page 184. 



The human bones, although in a state of poor preservation, represent nearly every part of 

 the skeleton of a woman of the mountain type, about thirty years of age, and, as far as may 

 be conjectured from the symmetry and delicate contours of the cranial and facial bones and 

 other skeletal parts, of decidedly attractive appearance. The superior quality of the pottery 

 and of the articles of personal adornment found in the grave would perhaps indicate that 

 the owner filled a position of some dignity in the community. 



Cave 62. 



This cave, also, was in what may be termed the lower grave region, its location being- 

 recorded as "half-way down the mountainside, northeast of the city." Fragmentary human 

 bones show that two individuals were buried here. Other articles recorded are : 



A large bronze pin (M. P. 557) of the style used by women, a scrap of decayed brown 

 cloth (M. P. 562), a small ornamental bronze bell 1 cm. in height (M. P. 561), ten pieces 

 of quartz crvstal, a broken geode, .some seeds, and two bits of paint. This paint has the 



♦ Presented to the National Museum at Lima. 



