| Show ANCIENT sig S Mar marguieri Marg ghieri hierl the well known arch archaeologist colonist logist co discovered and explored a hermetically sealed cave at an elevation of nearly feet on the eastern side of the sierra madre mountains Mount in mexico about miles south of afdem dem aug between Cora litos and casa Grande about two yearb a ago 1 9 the floor was nearly smooth the sides as rough and rugged and the vault covered with stalactite in the tar far end of thit leav ern were found tour lour desiccated human bodies th e bodies were in a sitting silting posture with the hands crossed on the breast and the knees approaching the chin with the head inclined forward they were carefully shrouded in their burial garments and placed facing the rising sun the male and female were seated side by side the older child a boy was at the right of the father and the younger child a girl at the left of the mother in addition to the funeral shrouds the little ittle girl was enveloped in the skin of an an animal similar to the method used in the island of fuerte ventura the better to preserve its tender frame the floor of the cavern iland nd the re were covered ti tine ae dust faut no footprints of man or beast be found the bodies were car vied tied to san francisco by bv signer sidnor mars mara bieri and were purchased by J T Z davis president ot of the board of trustees of the state mining bureau and by him presented to the bureau bureau no embalming process was used in the preservation of these bodies they were dried by tte abe air alone the bodies are not like those of the indians of the present day because the fingers and hands bands and feet are is smaller mallar than the average and the womans comans hair to is brown and silken and of the caucasian type the body of the man must haye baye weighed in life from ISO to pounds but it now weighs only 14 pounds the body ot of the woman weighs only 12 32 pounds in the lobe of each of the small and well proportioned ears cars is a piece of hollow bamboo or reed as au an ornament the woman had bad a large forehead and well developed reasoning powers T the ae little boy weighs but three pounds and the girl irl only four and a halt half pounds the burial shrouds schrouda of the 1 he body arp composed chiefly of cotton hair hide bide grasses and nd th the e barl bark of willows T the lle bodies may now be seen at the rooms of the state mining bureau aa |
