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BULLETIIT 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Figure 99, a somewhat similar arrangement of the bird symbols, 

 but different from the latter in being connected, forming a pleasing 



Fia. 98. — Design from the neck of a 



VASE FROM TDLAROSA RIVER. 



Fig. 99. — Design from a bird-form 

 VASE FROM San Francisco River. 



fret. The design is from a bird-form vessel from the San Francisco 



River at Alma, New Mexico. Collected by E. W. Nelson, Cat. No. 



109779, U.S.N.M. 



Figure 100. In this is shown a 

 square treatment of the bird de- 

 sign. (From a vase from Blue, 

 Arizona, Cat. No. 245518, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 101, from a bird-form 



vase is the most spirited design that has been found in this region. 



It consists of volutes which are birds, and is strengthened and 



Fig. 100. — Design from a vase from 

 Blue. 



Fig. 101. — Design feom a bied-fokm vase prom San Francisco River. 



beautified by the addition of the wings and tails of the birds. 

 This design is peculiarly interesting, because it is a definite key 

 to the meaning of these inter- 

 locking volutes. (Alma, New 

 Mexico. Collected by E. W. Nel- 

 son, Cat. No. 109778, U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 102. This design is easily 

 seen to be the interlocking bird 

 pattern, and it also presents an- 

 other form of the bird symbol in 

 the triangular areas above and be- 

 low. From a vase from the Tula- 

 rosa Eiver. (Collected by Henry Hales, Cat. No. 155127, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



Fig. 102. — Design from a vase from 

 TuLAROSA River. 



