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family resemblance to Basket Maker material; Coahuila coiled bas- 
ketry, however, is of the locked stitch variety. 
CULTURE 
It of course goes without saying that we need more data before we 
can attempt to draw any certain conclusions as to the affinities of the 
Basket Maker culture. Something may, however, be done in tracing 
out various lines of inquiry for which we already have the material. 
One such is offered by basketry. It has been shown above that 
Basket Maker coiled work, as well as that from the cliff-houses, is 
made without interlocking stitches. Mason states that all coiled 
basketry has interlocking stitches, so that we must suppose that to 
be at least the usual type in other districts. If the unlocked style 
is unusual, it should provide a good classificational item. We have 
in the museums of the country a great amount of coiled basketry 
from the Shoshonean tribes of the Southwest; also from the Apache, 
the Pima, etc.; as well as from the different Californian and north 
Mexican stocks. There are, moreover, archeological specimens from 
caves in southern New Mexico and Arizona, Coahuila, Nevada, and 
California. A thoroughgoing study of the designs and weaves of 
these groups may be expected to bring out much suggestive informa- 
tion. 
Similar comparative investigations should be carried out along 
other lines—sandals, matting, dice, pipes, beads, twined work, coil 
without foundation, etc. The correlation of these branches of cul- 
tural inquiry, taken together with somatological researches and a 
consideration of the geographical range of the Basket Makers, can 
hardly fail to throw much light on the questions of who they were 
and whence they derived their culture, whether or not it was parent 
to that of the Cliff-dwellers or whether it was the forerunner of some 
other culture, possibly that of the modern Ute and Paiute. 
SoMATOLOGY 
The question of whether the Basket Maker culture was or was not 
parent to that of the Cliff-dwellings would be simplified if we knew 
something of the racial affinities of the people who produced it. 
This, of course, can only be accomplished by means of somatological 
studies. Basket Maker crania are undeformed, dolichocephalic, and 
of a rather markedly scaphoid type; those of the Cliff-dwellers are 
so strongly deformed posteriorly that we are quite unable to tell 
what their natural form might have been. It is probable, however, 
that competent physical anthropologists will be able to reconstruct, 
at least approximately, the true form of the Cliff-dweller cranium, 
and thus comparative studies may yet be made. All the living 
peoples of the Southwest, particularly the Ute and the Paiute, should 
be brought into comparison somatologically with the Basket Makers, 
