the graves. 67 



Cave 75. 



The recorded location of this cave is "one-half the way up Machu Picchu mountain, 

 on the side towards Intihuatana." Parts of the skeletons of two individuals were collected 

 here. 



Leaving out of account those parts that cannot be assigned with certainty to either sex, 

 it may be said that one individual (Ost. Coll. 3230) is represented by a well-preserved skull 

 (Plate XXVI) and some more or less imperfect long bones. The skull is adult and free 

 from voluntary deformation. It is probably male, though I cannot positively determine its 

 sex. With reference to its physical type, it seems to pertain to the mountain population 

 rather than to the people of the coast, for the mesocephalic index of 78.8 is largely due to 

 the somewhat feminine prominence of the parietal centers, without which peculiarity the 

 cranial index would probably have fallen within Broca's sub-dolichocephalic division. The 

 free movement of this Indian's head was seriously hampered by congenital fusion of the atlas 

 with the occipital bone. 



The long bones apparently exceed in their dimensions the averages for Peruvian women, 

 and this is one of the reasons for regarding the skull as male. No part of the pelvis of 

 this individual was recovered from the grave. 



Very little of the other skull (Ost. Coll. 3231) is preserved, except fragments of the 

 facial portion. These are accompanied by long bones and pelvic fragments that can be 

 referred without hesitation to the male sex. The bones are stout and rugose, and the man's 

 muscular development must have been excellent. His height, which seems to have been 

 below the mean stature of his race, was further reduced by a severe fracture of the right 

 tibia and fibula, that, through the overlapping and fusion of the bones, resulted when healed 

 in the shortening of the limb by at least a centimeter. One small potsherd was the only 

 artifact collected from this grave. 



Cave 76. 



This burial cave was only "about 200 yards east of the foot of the main stairway" of 

 the city. The human bones collected here are meager in every respect, and yield very little 

 useful information. It appears from the long bones that at one time or another, two inter- 

 ments had been made in this cave, one of the individuals being obviously female, while the 

 sex of the other is uncertain. A few pieces of llama bone satisfy the conventions in regard 

 to food. 



Besides one whole small pot, probably an aryballus (M. P. 957), sherds of several other 

 vessels were collected, also a number of small stone pieces, mostly counters and ornaments, 

 and a silver pin. This last is of small. size, its length being only 10 cm. and its breadth 

 2.8 cm. There seems to be no reason for supposing that small pins of this description were 

 used exclusively by women. 



Cave yj. 



The recorded location of this cave is "half-way up the Machu Picchu mountain, and 

 south of the city." The human bones can be separated into three individuals, two women 

 and a man. 



