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curvilinear, as [G^J expressing motion, which may be units or 

 joined in a scroll; the bird's body is shown, either in the curvilinear 

 or geometric method, as a triangle ^ /P ^ or the clipped decoration 

 may be a simple triangle ^\^ sometimes supplied with head and 

 tail '^\7^ (Hough, 1914, p. 48, fig. 85), and this seems to occur 

 much later than the period of the Elden ware and at a time when a 

 4-bird convention became prevalent in Pueblo art. The 2-bird sym- 

 bol is the rule in Elden Pueblo pottery, only one bowl, unmistakably 

 of the latest period of Elden art, having the 4-bird symbol. This 

 bowl (pi. T, fig. 3) is the only specimen having a design in the 

 plain circular area of the bottom. 



The list of small units of design in the Elden pottery is not long. 

 Those that are not clipped symbols, as the bird symbol simplified 

 in various degrees, are the toothed line i n 1 1 ', occurring here in a 

 very few instances; the serrated line .^AAA, in which the triangular 

 serration points are slanted diagonally and when drawn in apposition 

 inclose a zigzag in white ; very rarely a line crossed diagonally with 



short lines, ■ ////// ; a terraced figure JH , sometimes representing 

 a bird's head having offsets or terrace designs in apposition, produc- 

 ing a stepped white line; terrace figures built up of blocks jr 

 used in all-over decoration ; oppositely placed bird convention ruled 



into blocks like mosaic >60y ; areas of small blocks with dots in 



the center, called plumage design [¥]; the same stopped out with 

 black, leaving a white circle with dot in a black area, a custo- 

 mary method of producing an eye; designs in small white squares 

 in a black field; series of diagonal parallel lines used to separate 

 figures ///// , or bands and hachuring; short lines connecting or com- 

 pleting figures in composition; wide black stripes outlining figures 

 in apposition with similar figures hachured. 



