. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. Figure 15. Sun-dried mummy ofone of the prehistoric Cliff-dwellers,just as it was found in a cliff ruin in south-ern Utah. Figure 16. Sams as Figure 15, re-stored through the action of a weak solu-tion of caustic potash. (See AmericanAnthropologist, Vol. 6, 1904.) very likely to resist decay, especially that of the hands and feet, wherethe underlying parts are mainly of bones and tendons, and here too, as inall instances of drying, the parts are left hard and shrunken, and difficultof examination. In all
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. Figure 15. Sun-dried mummy ofone of the prehistoric Cliff-dwellers,just as it was found in a cliff ruin in south-ern Utah. Figure 16. Sams as Figure 15, re-stored through the action of a weak solu-tion of caustic potash. (See AmericanAnthropologist, Vol. 6, 1904.) very likely to resist decay, especially that of the hands and feet, wherethe underlying parts are mainly of bones and tendons, and here too, as inall instances of drying, the parts are left hard and shrunken, and difficultof examination. In all such cases, wherever dried parts are to be investi-gated, they may be restored to practically their natural form by simplyimmersing them in a 1-3 per cent solution of caustic potash (K-OH),and allowing them to remain until they have swollen out to apparentlytheir normal fullness, after which they should be immersed in water fora short time, and then placed for final preservation in weak alcohol or asolution of formalin. When in the potash they should be watched fromtime to time, but a
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