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culture was the spherical black vessel from below the floor of the 
Sunflower Cliff-house (p. 95, and pl. 59, a). 
As against this seeming absence of pottery, we have the following 
statement of McLoyd and Graham: 
The third kind of pottery is very valuable, less than fifty pieces having been 
found up to date, and those in.the underground rooms that have been men- 
tioned as being underneath the cliff-dwellings and in the same caves. It is a 
very crude unglazed ware, some of the bowls showing the imprint of the 
baskets, in which they were formed.* 
It is possible that the Basket Makers of Grand Gulch produced 
more pottery than did those of the Kayenta district; it should be 
remembered, however, that basket-marked pottery, though rare, is to 
be found in many cliff-dwellings and pueblos, and it may be that 
“McLoyd and Graham, knowing basketry to be typical of the Basket 
Maker culture, concluded that basket-marked pottery must be asso- 
ciated with it. We have not been able to examine the pieces re- 
ferred to. 
The question of the presence or absence of pottery is still, then, an 
open one. That a corn-growing people should not*have made pottery 
is extraordinary, for in America the two have usually migrated to- 
gether; in fact pottery has often spread, as in southern California, 
beyond the limits of corn growing. 
In any case it may safely be inferred that pottery was infinitely 
less abundant among the Basket Makers than it was among the Cliff- 
dwellers, and was probably, if present, of a crude type. 
RELATIVE AGE 
As to the relative age of the Basket Maker and Cliff-dwelling cul- 
tures, we are able to make no conclusive statement. The Wetherills, 
the accuracy of whose statements on other points we have had many 
opportunities to corroborate, were sure that the Basket Maker 
remains in Grand Gulch underlay those of the Cliff-dwellers. Mc- 
Loyd and Graham were of the same opinion. Although we were 
unable to find any such case of direct superposition, we noted in Sun- 
flower Cave cists of undoubted Basket Maker origin which had 
apparently been destroyed during the building or occupancy of the 
cliff-house. We also found in the same cave an undoubted Basket 
Maker sandal lying in otherwise straight Cliff-dweller rubbish, as if 
it had been pulled from one of the rifled cists. The other caves 
offered no direct evidence; the cliff-house walls in Cave I were 
founded on hardpan in a corner that contained no Basket Maker 
remains. In this cave, as in Cave IT and at Sayodneechee, however, 
the surface sand contained Cliff-house potsherds and a few cached 
1 Quoted by Pepper, 1902, p. 9. 
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