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pappoose rendered it difficult to transport it intact as found, and the decay 

 of the epiphyses and other tender parts of the skeleton marred its symmetry. 

 The cranium is believed to be perfect. 



960. Mummified cranium, of unknown tribe and date, secured in Gun- 

 nison, Central Utah, by Mr. Francis Klett, of the expedition of 1872, 

 from a rock-grave on a hill-side west of Gunnison, similarly constructed 

 to those near Beaver. The bones of the skeleton were too much scattered 

 for collection. 



961. Unknown skull, from Camp Apache, Arizona, secured by Mr. G. 

 K. Gilbert, geologist, during the expedition of 1871. 



962. Miscellaneous bones, from ancient mounds, Provo, Utah. Provo, 

 a prosperous Morman town, lies fifty miles south of Salt Lake City, on a 

 broad plain between the Wahsatch Mountains and Utah Lake. West of 

 the town, on its outskirts and within three or four miles of the lake, are 

 many mounds, of various construction and in different states of preserva- 

 tion. Mormon farmers have leveled some of them, plowed into others 

 on the edges, and removed from others the rich soil for use elsewhere; in 

 no case has there been a special attempt at exploring them. Those ex- 

 amined were on low ground, almost on a level with the lake and with 

 Provo River, a mile distant on the north. Overflows from both the river 

 and the lake sufficient to inundate the area of country occupied by the 

 mounds are not at all unlikely to have occurred during the long lapse of 

 time since the building of the mounds, though at the present time the 

 climatic character of the region is such that overflows are of rare occur- 

 rence; not infrequent to a mild degree, however, after the melting of the 

 snows in the lofty Wahsatch Range, from which Provo River issues. This 

 fact of periodic overflows is mentioned as bearing on the question of the 

 origin and use of the mounds in which the miscellaneous bones of No. 962 

 were obtained. Mounds of various sizes and shapes, in different parts of 

 the plain, were dug into and examined, and these miscellaneous bones 

 found at all depths, and in every mound entered, scattered without order, 

 and without evidence of careful arrangement or systematic distribution. 

 Some of the larger bones were found near the skeleton numbered 965. 



963. Cranium, with part of the skeleton of a Pah-Ute brave, from a rock- 



