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7, traces of it at Ruin 9, and Cummings’s older houses in Sagiotsosi 
seem to us to be surely Slab-house. Dr. Kroeber has recently dis- 
covered in the Zufi Valley sherds which are very similar to the Ruin 
5 specimens.* 
Basket MAKER 
That the finds made in the Kinboko caves and at Sayodneechee are 
the products of a culture different from that of the cliff-dwellings 
and pueblos of the region, the authors are entirely convinced. There 
is also no doubt in their minds that the objects are of the same 
culture as that discovered in Grand Gulch, Utah, by the Wetherill 
brothers and called by them “Basket Maker.” This name was 
adopted by Pepper in his short paper? on the Wetherill and the 
McLoyd and Graham collections; as it has undoubted priority, we 
continue its use. 
This culture, as reported by Pepper, differed from that of the 
Cliff-dwellers in various particulars: skull deformation was not prac- 
ticed; houses were round, subterranean chambers; the atlatl was used 
to the apparent exclusion of the bow and arrow; pottery was rare, 
crude, and basket-marked; basketry, on the other hand, was ex- 
tremely abundant. Our investigations served to confirm most of 
these statements; * we have also been able to add to the list a number 
of other differences, the more important of which are shown in the 
accompanying tabulation. It should be remembered, however, that 
our knowledge of the Basket Maker culture is still far more scanty 
than our knowledge of the Cliff-dweller. Further field work may 
prove that some of the stated differences do not exist; it will also 
probably add others not now recognized. 
TABLE OF DIrFFERENCES—CLIFF DWELLER AND Basket MAKER 
CLIFF DWELLER BASKET MAKER 
HOUSES 
Square-cornered, masonry rooms built | Little data; perhaps only semisub- 
above ground. terranean cists. 
BURIALS 
In individual graves, in the open, or in | In cists, rock lined, or dug in hardpan 
the rubbish -of houses. of caves, often more than one body 
in a cist. 
1See Kroeber, 1916, p. 37. The type also occurs in the Hopi country (author’s ex- 
plorations in 1917). 
* 1902. . 
*In Kidder, 1917, it was stated that we were able to confirm them all. Further 
study, however, inclines us to reserve opinion on basket-marked pottery, round sub- 
terranean rooms, and proved greater antiquity for Basket Maker remains. 
