THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS < >F SOUTHEASTERN 



UTAH. 



II I'lii: 



Assistant in the Department of Anthropology. 



Thb southwestern part of the United States is noted archaeo- 

 ally for its cliff dwellings and pueblos. The cliff-hou 



more numerous in Colorado, Utah and Arizona, but the lar. 

 Up of ruined pueblos is situated in one of the broad canon 

 northwestern New Mexico. These homes of the ancient people, 

 though differing greatly in form and situation, as well as the cave 

 md boulder houses of the old river beds, were doubtless 

 the result of environment, and were probably, to a certain 

 tent, occupied contemporaneously. The numerous problems 

 suggested by these ruins have been studied by careful investi- 

 ■rs. and exploration work has served to verify many hypo- 

 thetical conclusions and to disprove as many more; but the work 

 may continue indefinitely, for each season brings to light some 

 blems of importance, and it is one of these that will be 

 red in this pap 



-ill family of Mancos, Colorado, have been cl< 

 associated with the archaeology of the Southwest for nearly a 

 •itury. and they have had the honor of bringing 

 before the pub/ reat Cliff-Dweller r I dorado and 



n untiring in their - and 



keen <>] Richard, the eld r of 



coloring trips, and it v who found, in 



skeletons of an 

 skulls were markedly different from tl 

 . and who named this i: 



rraham, fol- 

 ind ma ►llectioi 



the statem- ider 



