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answered Feb. 4/03 Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University F.W. PUTNAM Peabody Professor of Amr. Arch. and Ethn Har. Univ., Curator of the Museum. Cambridge, Mass., Feb 9/03 Dear Mr Pepper My mail today has brought me the enclosed specimens with an account of a body found in a cave in New Mexico (Grant Co I suppose) no locality given in letter. The writer says body has light brown or redish hair [[?]]- that he was wrapped in skin blankets (one sample of same enclosed) tied with cords [[?]] a gourd of [[corn?]] at head, a stone pipe in right hand & tobacco pouch in left. Will you please look at the
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corrected [[?]] changed to locality, redish misspelled in letter, sawft possibly for the word soft,[[?]] before and after "tied with cords" could be same words