. Bulletin. Ethnology. KiDDBK-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 83 and protected only by a single fiat slab placed close above it. The burial was accompanied by the decayed remains of a fur-cloth blanket and of a coiled basket, and below was an almost completely rotted cradle made of thin twigs tied together with ornamental lash- ings of human hair. Summing up the evidence as to burial customs, we find that the bodies were placed, often in reclining positions, in the bottoms of the cists. No attempt at roofing the graves seems to have been made, sand merely having been heaped in
. Bulletin. Ethnology. KiDDBK-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 83 and protected only by a single fiat slab placed close above it. The burial was accompanied by the decayed remains of a fur-cloth blanket and of a coiled basket, and below was an almost completely rotted cradle made of thin twigs tied together with ornamental lash- ings of human hair. Summing up the evidence as to burial customs, we find that the bodies were placed, often in reclining positions, in the bottoms of the cists. No attempt at roofing the graves seems to have been made, sand merely having been heaped in over the corpses. Wrappings of fur cloth were almost invariably used, supplemented occasionally, as nearly as we could tell, by portions of worn-out or deliberately cut-open twined bags. Offerings were numerous and varied, but the one standard gift ,_.^_ to the dead seems to :;; have been coiled bas- ketry; wherever we ;; . found burials at all -"â¢:. well preserved they were always accom- -v- panied by at least one ,â ; -. such basket. As to .';' the number of bodies âº'.â¢'â¢; per cist, our evidence :⢠:⢠from Cave I is not â â¢.'â¢â very reliable, owing to ':-\' the generally confused condition of the ceme- tery. It may be said, however, that no such packing in of bodies as was noted at Sayodneechee took place here. On the other hand, most of the cists in Cave I undoubtedly held more than a single corpse. The commonest allotment seems to have been one adult and one or two infants. Some of the bodies were evidently mudded into the cists at the time of interment, as many bones and partly " mummified " limbs were found incased in masses of hardened adobe (fig. 31). This hardening could scarcely have been due in every case to the action of liquids freed from the bodies during decomposition, since many of them were desiccated rather than decayed. Mr. John Wetherill, who visited the cave while the work was in progress, told us that he had seen s
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