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 



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