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beads were found with the fras^^nients of burned bones. Early 

 Spanish writers speak of the Zuni custom of crematins; the dead. 

 Above these interments, however, and extendiiii^' to within a few 

 inches of the surface, were the t^raves of the hiter people, those 

 who lived in Hawikuh proper. These dead, unlike the more ancient 





Fig. 67. — Hawikuli. Tlie upper part of a skele- 

 ton almost completely covered with remains of 

 baskets and corn. Xote the prayer-sticks over the 

 pelvis. Photograph by E. F. Coffin. 



biu'ials described, were interred usualh- with the head directed east- 

 wardly, the body fully clothed, and accompanied with such personal 

 belonging's as. in the case of women, metates and manos. floor and 

 hair brushes, head-rings used in carrying water jars, mats, baskets, 

 raw material for various manufactures, together with i)»)tterv vessels 



