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.Besides a few potsherds, some llama bones and charcoal, the following articles were 

 collected: A bronze pin or needle 7.5 cm. long (M. P. 650), a llucma seed (M. P. 651), 

 three stone counters or tokens (M. P. 652, 653, 655), and a stone disk 5 cm. in diameter 

 (M. P. 654). 



Cave 92. 



The location of this cave was about "150 yards northeast from the city." Badly decayed 

 fragments of one human skeleton were collected. The skull is toO' imperfect for accurate 

 measurement, but it is undoubtedly that of a woman of the coast. There is no trace of 

 occipital flattening. 



A good many broken llama bones were found, and also some osseous remains of rodents. 

 Among the latter are a humerus and part of a mandible of Abrocoma sp., the latter being a 

 valuable addition to the collection, as it is the only mandible retaining the lower incisors 

 that is referable to the new species described on page 87. A species of Dactylomys is 

 represented by two pieces, a mandible and a maxillary portion, showing the nearly com- 

 plete dentition (Ost. Coll. 3322). The teeth satisfy the definition of the dental characters 

 of Dactylomys, given by Waterhouse (Natural History of Mammalia, page 310) and com- 

 pare very closely in size and enamel foldings with Isidore Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire's figures 

 of the dentition of Dactylomys dactylinus (Magazine de Zoologie, 1840, Plate 28, figures i, 

 2 and 3). As Doctor J. A. Allen's D. peruanus from Juliaca, Peru (a species whose 

 dentition has not, I think, been figured), is supposed to be very much smaller in size than 

 D. dactylinus, the fragmentary jaws from Machu Picchu are hardly separable from the 

 latter species. 



From the sherds collected in this cave the following pieces of pottery have been restored : 

 Two deep two-handled dishes (M. P. 836, 849), a large two-handled plate (M. P. 853), 

 a large round-bottomed vessel (M. P. 891) and a pelike-shaped jug (M. P. 1009). 



Cave 93. 



From this cave, "about 200 yards northeast from the foot of the main stairway," a skull 

 and various other decayed bones, including pelvic fragments, were collected. This individual 

 (Ost. Coll. 3243) was a small woman not more than thirty years of age, whose undeformed 

 skull is easily assigned to the coast type, in view of the pronounced brachycephalic cranial 

 index of 92.9. 



In the Provisional List of Pottery, Bronzes, etc., found at Machu Picchu, no pottery is 

 recorded as having been restored from the few sherds found in this cave, and no bronzes 

 were obtained. But a number of other small articles mentioned in the following list were 

 excavated, which after careful study may eventually throw light on the occupation and the 

 position in the community of the young woman in whose grave they were placed. Two of 

 these articles. Numbers 658 and 661, are shown on Plate III, figures i and 2. 



Stone counter, 4x3 cm. 



Token, green chlorite schist, 4.6x2.1 cm. 



Stone counter, 2 x 1.9 cm. 



Stone counter, 2.2 x 2.2 cm. 



Stone token, green chlorite schist, 5.3 x 2 cm. 



Stone counter, 1.4 x 1.2 cm. 



