than their predecessors. Greater changes in the type of 
pottery than those observed would be expected if the 
period of abandonment had been long. A quarter of the 
total number of sherds from one room occupied by the 
newcomers was of the brown paste type, an atypical pro- 
portion for the area at that time, but the other rooms do 
not show as high a proportion. 
Perishable Material other than Maize 
A large amount of perishable material other than maize 
was found in the upper levels, including nine sandals, five 
wooden arrow foreshafts, a number of fragments of bas- 
ketry and matting and several hundred pieces of plain, 
fur, or feather-wrapped cordage. One of the sandals is 
a modified fish-tail type of the kind found throughout 
the Mogollon area (Cosgrove, 1947, fig. 92-9b; Haury, 
1934, plate 41; Bluhm, 1952, p. 271). It is interesting 
to note in this connection that Cosgrove also found Trip- 
sacoid maize together with this type of sandal in the 
Hueco Mountain caves. Two of the other sandals were 
typical of the Four Corners Region in Basketmaker and 
Pueblo III horizons (Kidder and Guernsey, 1919). A 
similar type was also found at Bat Cave (Herbert Dick, 
unpub.) and in Tularosa Cave (Bluhm, 1952, p. 279). 
The sandals might suggest that the newcomers origi- 
nated from somewhere in the Mogollon region, but such 
a conclusion is based on slim evidence at best. Recent 
researches in the Cebolleta Mesa area have resulted in 
the conclusion that there is a region of cultural blending 
between the Anasazi and Mogollon regions. In this case, 
since the Cebolleta Mesa area is on the southern periphery 
of the Anasazi region, it might have received influences 
from the blend region just to its south. Therefore, it 
seems likely that the possessors of the Tripsacoid maize 
may have come from this blend region. 
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