. Bulletin. Ethnology. 630 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. E. Bull. 143 There are indications that these Indians practiced human sacrifice, especially of children. The discovery that some small boys were buried in urns, whereas others were interred in the ground, leads to the supposition that the first were victims of sacrificial rites. In Salinas Grandes on the Puna, the richly clothed body of a 6- or 7-year- old boy was discovered in splendid condition buried in the salt. He had been strangled with a rope which was still about his $¥< mt,M 000. Please note that these images are ex
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 630 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. E. Bull. 143 There are indications that these Indians practiced human sacrifice, especially of children. The discovery that some small boys were buried in urns, whereas others were interred in the ground, leads to the supposition that the first were victims of sacrificial rites. In Salinas Grandes on the Puna, the richly clothed body of a 6- or 7-year- old boy was discovered in splendid condition buried in the salt. He had been strangled with a rope which was still about his $¥< mt,M 000. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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