Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 12.—View of the Pyramid of the ^loon and road of dead. Excavateddirt shows entrance to tunnel extending toward interior about 90 feet. Thistunnel is cross cut and the right hand cut terminates in a shaft built into thecenter of the pyramid Fig. 13.—Teotihuacan. View from the west of the Pyramid of the Sun after excavation. NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II I5 of the Sun, and about 20 feet north of the track of the local railroadwhere there was a large level piece of ground without ruins. Thewo
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 12.—View of the Pyramid of the ^loon and road of dead. Excavateddirt shows entrance to tunnel extending toward interior about 90 feet. Thistunnel is cross cut and the right hand cut terminates in a shaft built into thecenter of the pyramid Fig. 13.—Teotihuacan. View from the west of the Pyramid of the Sun after excavation. NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II I5 of the Sun, and about 20 feet north of the track of the local railroadwhere there was a large level piece of ground without ruins. Theworkmen had opened a long exploratory trench through this tract, par-allel with the railroad. In an urn-shaped cavity Dr. Hrdlicka foundthe skeletons of a man and a woman, and various dishes, rugs, andknives. The skulls were artificially deformed. These objects were de-posited in the museum at San Juan. The interest in this find lies, ac-cording to Dr. Hrdlicka, in the peculiar construction of the grave, the fact that here were buried together an adult man and an adultwoman, which suggests the sacrifice of the woman on the occasion ofthe death of her husband. what appears to be a clear evidence thatthe artificial head-deformation of the fiathead type was actuallypractised by at least a part of the ancient inhabitants of the
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