modified basket maker

modified basket maker
noun
Usage: usually capitalized M&B&M
: an ancient culture of the plateau area of southwestern United States characterized by fired pottery, permanent pithouses, grooved hammers, notched axes, bows and arrows, the cultivation of beans and corn, and the domesticated turkey

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