THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH 
authorities on this subject, that I shall draw many of my 
facts. 
Richard Wetherill, in writing of this region, says: “Grand 
Gulch cirains nearly all the territory southwest of the Elk moun- 
tains, from the McComb Wash to the Clay Hills, about one thous- 
and miles of territory. It is the most tortuous canon in the whole 
of the Southwest, making bends from 200 to 600 yards apart, al- 
BURIAL CAVE OF BASKET MAKERS, GRAND GULCH, UTAH 
most the entire length, or for fifty miles, and each bend means a 
The Caiions cave or overhanging cliff; all of those with an exposure 
of Utah. to the sun had been occupied either for cliff-houses or as 
burial places. The cafion is from 300 to 700 feet deep and in 
many places, toward the lower end, the bends are cut through by 
Nature, making natural bridges. Under these bridges, in some 
cases, are houses, and in such places are pictographs in the greatest 
profusion; the painted ones of the Basket Maker, with the later 
ones of the Cliff Dweller cut or incised in the rock without paying 
any attention to previous ones. Ingress and egress are very 
difficult, there being not more than five or six places where even 
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