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Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER IV
15/45

The bottom of the burial caves seems to have always been overlaid with a roughly level, concrete floor.

There was no trace here of cysts, or other formal sepulture.
None of the remains wore ornaments of metal, but various shell ornaments, anklets and bracelets of beautifully plaited straw, which, however, crumbled into dust when touched.

Their clothing consisted of three layers of wrappings around the loins.

Next to the body was placed a coarse cotton cloth; then a piece of matting, and over that another cotton cloth.

Between the legs was a large wad of cotton mixed with the feathers of the turkey, the large woodpecker, and the bluejay.


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