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are used in the highlands of Peru and BoHvia at the present time for parching maize. 

 As thei-e can be no doubt regarding the female character of the human skeleton obtained 

 with the vessel, the only further suggestion I can make, is that in the nature of things some 

 element of uncertainty, small though it be, must affect any theory based upon the supposed 

 ownership of the brazier by the individual with whose remains it was found. 



Cave 95. 



This cave was about "250 yards northeast from the foot of the main stairway." The 

 human skeletal material was in a state of very poor preservation. All that can be said of 

 it is that the individual was a medium-sized young woman. The records state that a few 

 sherds were found, together with two small counters of green schist (M. P. 664, 665) and 

 two small odd-shaped tokens of the same material (M. P. 666, 667). Several fragmentary 

 llama bones show that the flesh of that animal was provided. 



Cave 96. 



It is interesting to note that this cave was on the north side of Huayna Picchu, accessible 

 from the city only by a long and difificult climb. It appears from the records that the 

 Indians collected only a few badly rotted bones and some plain sherds. The interment was 



that of a small individual, not quite adult. The potsherds include some pieces of a fire- J'^^Y 



blackened beaker-shaped olla, and among the crumbling bones a few osseous fragments of ^ -y^ (4A 

 llama appear. There is also a mandibular ramus and the radius of a small opossum, y ,1^ /l-*^ 



presumably one of the larger animals of the Didelphys paragtiayensis group. '■'■ ^.-t\/ 



Cave 97. 



The Indians reported that this cave was "two-thirds of the way down to the river, east 

 of Machu Picchu." A few well-worn teeth and some decayed bones from various parts 

 of the skeleton show that a small adult person was once buried here. Llama bones in 

 profusion indicate that the supposed needs of the dead were amply provided for, and the 

 material brought from this grave includes pottery and various other small articles. The 

 best pieces of pottery are a small aryballus (M. P. 894) and a small wide-necked jug 

 (M. P. 973). Several pieces have not yet been restored. Other articles are listed as follows: 



M. P. 668. Token ; green chlorite schist, 4.2 x 4.4 cm. 

 M. P. 669. Token; green chlorite schist, 6.2x4 cm. 



Stone counter, 2.7 x 2.6 cm. 



Stone counter, 3.6 x 3.6 cm. 



Bronze ear-pendant (broken). 



Bit of yellow paint. 



Rough stone object, 5.3 x 2 x i.i cm. 



Stone knife or scraper, 5.3 x 5.2 x 1.6 cm. 



Although this cave was situated a long distance from most of the other burial caves of 

 the Machu Picchu mountainside, there can be little doubt of its belonging to the same 

 period as the burial cave 93, which was about 200 yards northeast from the foot of the 

 main stairway. This will at once appear if the stone tokens, Numbers 658 and 661 from 



