Arizona republican., 1896-02-27
DOWN FROM X PAST ERA Pathological Discovery
 of importance. Mummy of a Prehistoric Cliff ~ DWeller.
A Curious Burial Crypt Tn a Cliff Dwelling Near the
 Verde.

John McCarty is hunter of renown in the north central part of the terri tory and by his rifle, traps and dogs has for several years managed to se- cure for himself livelihood of profit. Yesterday, however, he materialized as an amateur snowman, presenting for the public inspection a genuine mummy, found by him in a cliff dwell ing on the Verde river, about a dozen miles north of the mouth of the East Verde
 The region is one of the toughest known in Arizona, yet along the river up under the cliffs on either side the valley are to be found many evidences of the prehistoric cliff dwellers Into one of these cliff dwellings a couple of years ago came McCarty, drawn by curiosity. One of the rooms seemed smaller than the outside walls of the house seemed to warrant. The in- terior wall next the cliff, when sound ed with pick from inside, seemed hol- low and a few blows made an opening into sealed up crypt. In this was found the mummy. Hsa
 It had evidently been propped up in a sitting position against the wall, ! though there were indications that the cliff dweller of long ago had been walled up alive and there left to die of starvation or suffocation. By the side of the drawn up mummy were found several broken pottery bowls and stone axe and in the vault were picked up a dozen obsidian and flint arrow heads, several of them of exceptional size and of rare workmanship. The mummy, which weighs but twenty-one pounds, was taken away by the finder on an Indian litter dragged behind a ,burro, till a wagon road was reached Since, till yesterday, the precious find has been wrapped up and carefully I kept from exposure to the air
 Yesterday MT. Cliff Dwelier was brought to view and, as he showed signs of disintegration, was carefully given coat of the besteof coach var nish prior to being placed in an air tight glass-topped box for public in spection.
 The mummy was seen by a Republi- can reporter where it was on exhibi- tion in a little tent at the Five Points It's the genuine article without the slightest resemblance to the petriied man of local fame It is that of a male, 7ft, 71sin in height. What the color was in life is not known; at pres ent it is like dried beef, black The skin in several places is broken away, leaving bones visible The arms are of extraordinary length and bhe fingers almost ape-like in development. The trunk is perfect, the skin entire across t.
 In the skull, however, lies the ele- nlent of greatest interest. The forma- tion is entirely different from that typical of the ancient dWellers in the valleys of Arizona. The valley dwell CTS were Toltecs, of almost Caucasian cranial features. The skull of the mummy, with forehead retreating from the nose and large rear develop ment, is of the Aztec type. The teeth are entire and well preserved, and protrude as in the canine tribe
 ! This mummy is the first that has ever been found in the cliff dwellings Of Arizona, though a number have been reported from the Sierra Madre mountains of Chihuahua It is of un- doubted authenticity and antiquity and is therefore of the most decided value as an acquisition to ethnologi- II cal science.