AK Pearson 1969 sand on the edge of cultivated fields. Behind the sand are small mountains. The sand hills are pocked with the holes of the ghosts. We parked the car and were immediately approached by a "huacero" with his bag of goods -- bit of cloth mounted on paper, pots of various shapes, spinning needles, and a couple strings of beads. I bought one of the last (70 soles) -- made from shells, and with a stone (a clay?) pendant weight down the chain. We probed amid the excavations -- where mummies, cloth and bones were strewn haphazardly. The dead were apparently wrapped in cotton and their clothes, placed in holes in the ground which were then covered with poles lashed together. The sand and rocks are put back over that roof. Didi and Steve took a couple feet, one of which I kept, and I excavated some small-mammal bones. Never came to the skull, but there was about a whole skeleton of some un-specialized beast, a smaller femur sacrum, a large rat tibia, and a toe nail (very lately compressed to almost 3/4 circumference). Anteater? Bones were adult, and seemed too small for fox or dog. Lots of mycelia (?) dropping in the hollow where the graves were. From Chancay we went to a cactus & rock area on the road to Sayan - Chuqui -- Chuiri where John Davis wanted to try to find an Estancia (?) We