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FEWKES: UNIQUE PREHISTORIC POTTERY 



closed in a circle. The breast is spotted with black dots char- 

 acteristic of bird and butterfly designs among the pueblos. 

 An effigy vase with these symbols, undoubtedly representing a 

 bird, was excavated last summer in a cemetery eight miles w^est 

 of Sandstone Canyon. 



The posterior extremity of the animal represented on the 

 handle of the two bowls could hardly represent the tail feathers 

 of a bird, but might be intended for the tail of another group of 

 anmials, as quadrupeds. The handle can be interpreted as 

 portions of the animals united; one of which is a bird and the 

 other nondescript, both with one common body, a condition 



Fig. 2. Double vase from above 



like that which characterizes some of the figures painted on the 

 interior of mortuary bowls from prehistoric graves in the Mim- 

 bres Valley, New Mexico. In these are found figures of well- 

 drawn fishes combined with an antelope or some nondescript 

 animal combinations. Collections of pottery from Colorado 

 and New Mexico show no designs where double animals are 

 painted or molded. 



The orifice of this double vase is situated in almost the middle 

 of the handle, nearer that of the supposed head. It communi- 



