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Show THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH authorities on this subject, that I shall draw many of my facts. Richard Wetherill, in writing of this region, says: Gulch drains nearly all the territory southwest of the Elk moun-tains, from the McComb Wash to the Clay Hills, about one thous-and miles of territory. It is the most tortuous canon in the whole of the Southwest, making bends from 200 to 600 yards apart, al- BURIAL CAVE OF BASKET MAKERS, GRAND GULCH, UTAH most the entire length, or for fifty miles, and each bend means a The Canons cave or overhanging cliff ; all of those with an exposure of Utah. to the sun had been occupied either for cliff- houses or as burial places. The canon is from 300 to 700 feet deep and in many places, toward the lower end, the bends are cut through by Nature, making natural bridges. Under these bridges, in some cases, are houses, and in such places are pictographs in the greatest profusion; the painted ones of the Basket Maker, with the later ones of the Cliff Dweller cut or incised in the rock without paying any attention to previous ones. Ingress and egress are very difficult, there being not more than five or six places where even |