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hood by capturing small game, they wandered from place to place 
wherever food could be found. Then came a people more ad- 
vanced; they lived in rude temporary dwellings constructed of 
brush, but instead of a bow they used a throwing-stick, or atlatl, 
Fic. 3. The corn is husked by the Zuni Indians and piled in the storeroom 
for the winter. Photo by Mrs. F. W. Hodge. 
in hunting, and made excellent basketry but no pottery. It was 
while these people inhabited the land embraced in what is now 
northeastern Arizona and south-central and southeastern Utah that 
corn found its way to the Southwest, and a primitive kind of agri- 
culture was born, with the ultimate result that in time the people 
found a more strictly sedentary life necessary to their tillage. 
