. Bulletin. Ethnology. STEWARD ] CAVES OF GREAT SALT LAKE REGION 87 contacts could not have endured long, however, for the Promontory culture lacks virtually all distinguishing traits of the puebloan pit- lodge culture of northern Ulah.*^ This possibility, however, at once suggests that we may have remains left by one of the Athapascan- speaking tribes who, during their southward migrations, acquired puebloan traits from the tribes they are presumed to have driven out of the Northern Periphery. More than this cannot be said at present concerning the origin and rela- tionships of this culture.
. Bulletin. Ethnology. STEWARD ] CAVES OF GREAT SALT LAKE REGION 87 contacts could not have endured long, however, for the Promontory culture lacks virtually all distinguishing traits of the puebloan pit- lodge culture of northern Ulah.*^ This possibility, however, at once suggests that we may have remains left by one of the Athapascan- speaking tribes who, during their southward migrations, acquired puebloan traits from the tribes they are presumed to have driven out of the Northern Periphery. More than this cannot be said at present concerning the origin and rela- tionships of this culture. Except for Basket Maker and Pueblo cultures. Utah is unknown archeologically. Ne- vada, except for Loud and Harring- ton's work at Love- lock and Harring- ton's work at Gyp- sum Cave, and in Basket Maker and Pueblo sites, is vir- t u a 11 3' unknown. Idaho remains even more of a blank. A fertile field for in- vestigation of pre- historic cultures lies in the Great Basin and Plateau, and it is not unlikely that it wdll afford many clues concerning the early history of the Shoshoneans and perhaps even of the Athapascan tribes of the Figure 37.—Pictographs on Promontory Point. Petroglyphs Three red petroglyphs (fig. 37, a-c) occur in Cave No. 1. It is said that a fourth representing a mountain sheep Avas removed a few years ago. Two of the remaining figures represent triangular- bodied anthropomorphic beings which so resemble the Basket Maker kachina-like figures of the Northern Periphery that there is no ques- «* steward, 1933 b, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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