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Southwest. The hollow bone tool (pl. 64,a) was taken from the 
floor of the round room. It is, so far as we know, unique. It shows 
the polish of long use; it is slightly curved, and has on its convex 
side a number of narrow, parallel grooves that look as if they had 
been made by the play of strings pulled back and forth around that 
side of the specimen. We can offer no suggestion as to its use. 
SANDALS 
Certain slab-built ruins described by Professor Cummings from 
Sagiotsosi* and stated by him to be definitely earlier than the cliff- 
dwellings of the region, would seem to be closely similar to our Slab- 
house type. From one of them he recovered a number of scallop- 
toed cord sandals. This style of footgear is represented in many un- 
located collections (Peabody, American, Southwest, and Brooklyn 
Museums), but was not encountered by us in either the cliff-houses or 
the Basket Maker caves; we venture to suggest, therefore, that it 
may be characteristic of the Slab-house culture. 
C. BASKET-MAKER CULTURE 2 
Foop 
VEGETAL 
Corn.—The Basket Makers, like the Cliff-dwellers, were a corn- 
using people. We have some evidence, however, that this important 
cereal was less highly developed among the former than among the 
latter. Our corn specimens fall, according to provenience, into three 
classes: (1) from cliff-dwellings proper; (2) from Basket Maker 
caves and directly associated with Basket Maker remains; (3) from 
the general digging near the surface in Cave II. On samples from 
these three groups we have the following notes from Mr. G. F. Will, 
of Bismarck, North Dakota, a gentleman who has given much study 
to the different varieties of Indian-grown corn. 
(1) From the Clif-dwellings.— Specimen A-1588 (Ruin 7) is a 
mixed sample. It contains several kernels of a large, white, flint 
corn which differs in type from any other lot, as well as from the 
modern type of the Pueblo region. In fact the kernels might be 
from an ear of Mandan white flint so far as appearance is concerned. 
The sample also contained one kernel of a blue flour corn similar to 
the modern one, and some white or yellow corn of the usual Pueblo 
type. Sample A-1172 (Ruin 1) contained one kernel of blue flour 
11910, p. 10 and figure on same; Sagiotsosi lies only a few miles southwest of the 
** Monuments.” 
2 Based on finds from the Sayodneechee Burial Cave (1914); and from Caves I and 
II, Kinboko (1915). 
