It is true that the women weave admirable designs in girdles and blankets, but this seems to be the utmost limit of their capabilities.

In the caves they sometimes draw with ochre clumsy figures of animals and women, and on some rocks may be seen outlines of feet scratched with stone "in order to leave their imprint in this world when they die." Tarahumare pottery is exceedingly crude as compared with the work found in the old cliff-dwellings, and its decoration is infantile as contrasted with the cliff-dwellers' work.

The cliff-dwellers brought the art of decoration to a comparatively high state, as shown in the relics found in their dwellings.

But the cave-dweller of to-day shows no suggestion of such skill.

Moreover, he is utterly devoid of the architectural gift which resulted in the remarkable rock structures of the early cliff-dwellers.