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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig. 107. — Design from a bowl from Blue. 



Figure 107. This design in solid black represents two birds in ter- 

 race form, the zigzag line representing the running element of the 

 design. The broad area of the terrace contains modifications of the 

 bird symbol. (From the interior of a bowl, Blue, Arizona, Cat. No. 



BHHBHBBHBnHHHH ^^^^^^^ U.S.KM.) 



Figure 108. This design, 

 which is a section of that 

 covering a whole vase, ap- 

 parently is intended to show a 

 succession of zigzags formed 

 by alternate ojoposed series 

 in solid black and gradine. 

 (Spur Ranch, Luna, New 

 Mexico, Cat. No. 231987, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 109. A similar de- 

 sign is found on the rim of 



a vase (fig. 104), and in it the zigzag line is manifestly important. 



The triangular spaces show the simplest form of the bird symbol. 



(Spur Ranch, Luna, New Mexico, Cat. No. 232001, U.S.N.M.) 

 Figure 110. Another design shows a pair of zigzag lines treated 



very much as the white line decorations on the red bowls from the 



Blue River. This is from the rim of a vase found at Fort Bayard, 



New Mexico, by Mrs. W. O. 



Owen, Cat. No. 17882G, U.S.N.M. 

 Figure 111. This is a design 



simplified for application to the 



handle of a dipper. It appar- 

 ently represents a succession of 



opposing black and gradine bird 



symbols whose opposition forms 



a zigzag. The denticulation on 



the margin of the triangles is ap- 

 parently a feather convention. 



(Tularosa River, New Mexico. 



Collected by H. Hales, Cat. No. 



155158, U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 112, design from the 



handle of the dipper previously 



mentioned. So far as is known 



the design is unique and it is difficult to assign its meaning. It is 



evidently a clipped or abbreviated design suited to the narrow space 



it must occupy, and appears to be the bird-rain triangular symbol 



arranged centrally, instead of in zigzag. 



Pig. 108.- 



-Design froai a vase from Spur 

 Ranch. 



