THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH 
footmen can get into or out of the canon. Water is fairly plentiful. 
Springs occur at very frequent intervals, running a short dis- 
tance and sinking in the sand perhaps to rise again lower down 
the canon. Wherever there are slopes a sparse growth of pinon 
and cedar occurs; about the springs are cottonwoods, willows 
and box-elders; in the shaded side canons are mountain ash and 
BASK=T BURIAL, GRAND GULCH, UTAH 
hackberry. The usual bush of the cafion is scrub oak. Canes 
or rushes cover the bottom lands in the vicinity of water.” 
This, then, was the home of the Basket Maker, at any rate, so 
far as we know. There are evidences that a few, at least, of 
these people found homes in the caves as far south as the Canon 
de Chelle, but nine-tenths of the caves inhabited by these people 
have been found in the Grand Gulch country. 
The Cliff Dwellers practiced artificial flattening of the head. 
This flattening was confined to the posterior portion of the 
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