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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(pi. 9, fig. 1).) The specimen is similar to those from Pueblo Bonito, 

 New Mexico, discovered by George Pepper, of the Hyde expedition.^ 

 Figure 92, bird design in dual treatment, forming volutes full of 

 movement. The design is simple, owing, perhaps, to the form and 

 area of the space to be covered, and this exigency has had as much 

 to do with the simplification and conventionalization of designs as 

 any other cause. (From a bowl found at Blue, Arizona, Cat. No. 

 245524, U.S.N.M.) 



Fig. 91. — Design from a red bowl from Apache Creek. 



Figure 93, bird design, interpreted in cloud and rain forms, in 

 solid black and gradined figures (dual treatment). The triangular 

 figures above are feathers (wings). It is probable that the idea here 

 is a combination of the bird and feathered serpent, the latter being 

 represented by the black element of the volutes. (From a vase. Blue, 

 Arizona, Cat. No. 245518, U.S.N.M.) 



Fig. 92. — Bird design from a bowl 

 FKOM Blue. 



Fig, 93. — Bird design from a vase from 

 Blue. 



Figure 94 is a more complicated design, made up of the dual inter- 

 locking bird frets running in two series. The result is mixed and 

 less artistic than usual. (From a vase. Blue, Arizona, Cat. No. 

 245522, U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 95, a terrace design entirely in black, the terraces repre- 

 senting the interlocking birds, and in the triangle above is appar- 

 ently a symbol representing a bird, which occurs also in other de- 

 signs. As the design is applied to the body of the vase, the lower 



' Kxploratlon of a Burial Room in Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico. Putnam Anniversary 

 Volume of Anthropological Essays, New York, 1909, pi. Ill, p. 206. 



