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Show THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH footmen can get into or out of the canon. Water is fairly plentiful. Springs occur at very frequent intervals, running a short dis-tance and sinking in the sand perhaps to rise again lower down the canon. Wherever there are slopes a sparse growth of pirion and cedar occurs; about the springs are cottonwoods, willows and box- elders ; in the shaded side canons are mountain ash and 3ASKT BURIAL, GRAND GULCH, UTAH hackberry. The usual bush of the canon is scrub oak. Canes or rushes cover the bottom lands in the vicinity of water." This, then, was the home of the Basket Maker, at any rate, so far as we know. There are evidences that a few, at least, of these people found homes in the caves as far south as the Canon de Chelle, but nine- tenths of the caves inhabited by these people have been found in the Grand Gulch country. The Cliff Dwellers practiced artificial flattening of the head. This flattening was confined to the posterior portion of the 5 |
