The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 173 with from one to three feet of loam, and in it there was anaccumulation of human remains, especially in the south-eastern corner. The skeletons were so near each other thatit was not possible to determine what belonged to eachskull. They had been packed as closely as possible, all bentand lying mostly on the side, with hands folded across thechest. There were male and female skeletons, but no bonesof children. Among these remains and a short distancefrom them, always inside of the zone indicated on the
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 173 with from one to three feet of loam, and in it there was anaccumulation of human remains, especially in the south-eastern corner. The skeletons were so near each other thatit was not possible to determine what belonged to eachskull. They had been packed as closely as possible, all bentand lying mostly on the side, with hands folded across thechest. There were male and female skeletons, but no bonesof children. Among these remains and a short distancefrom them, always inside of the zone indicated on the plan,were found artefacts of almost every description, weaponsand textures excepted. We obtained pottery, copper imple-ments, stone hammers for breaking clods, pins (tumis,*or *topos), a few tiny specimens of gold, among them abangle, fragments of sculptured slabs, hoes (chonta) ofstone, etc. Beside perfect specimens of earthenware, manysherds were exhumed. The pottery was mostly of thecoarser type, but we obtained several gaudily painted spec
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