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squares. A small bowl from Tularosa has the feet of a 

 child represented on the bottom. The red and black 

 pottery of the Little Colorado often has animal forms 

 either slightly or highly conventionalized. 



Pottery vessels and fragments have been found in 

 ruins undoubtedly prehistoric that show clear evidence 

 of having been treated before burning in a way to pro- 

 duce a vitreous glaze. This may have resulted from 

 an application of the salt found along the streams where 

 it had been deposited by evaporation. 



It is expected that by a minute and careful study 

 of the designs upon the pots and potsherds in the South- 

 w^est, definite cultural subdivisions of the area may 

 some time be made and possibly earlier and later 

 occupations of the same region may be determined. 



Baskets. Fragments of baskets have been found in 

 many of the ruins and it w^ould appear that they were 

 made over the entire area. The common type is of 

 diagonal plaiting with a heavy wooden rim for a border. 

 The material used w^as chiefly wide strips of yucca 

 leaves and there were no attempts at decoration. The 

 northwest portion of the area, however, seems quite 

 exceptional in the number, variety, and excellence of the 

 specimens recovered. The collections in the jNIuseum 

 w^ere taken from Grand Gulch and Cottonwood Creek, 

 Utah. The majority of the specimens were found with 

 burials either in caves devoted to that purpose or under 

 the floors of dwellings built in caves. 



These baskets are coiled with a single rod founda- 

 tion, a peeled tw^ig probably w^illow or sumach. The 



