334 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



The top tigure, Plate 93, shows the birds of the four cardinal points, 

 two very much enlarged and two smaller. The stripes on the border 

 are the tail feathers of the larger birds. The limitations of the basket 

 maker are well shown in the specimen, in that all perspective is neg- 

 lected and ever}^ part of the body brought to the same plane; the feet 

 are turned around so as to show the toes. 



The lower figure in the same plate represents one bird. The head 

 on the upper margin having rain-cloud appendages, the beak being 

 represented by an extension on the right hand side. The wider sym- 

 bolic colors are abbreviated in every part. The bend in the knee is 

 shown by the rectangular spaces representing the leg. (See Plate 93.) 



The basket shown in Plate -iT was made at the Hopi tillage of 

 Oraibi. The symbols on this basket represent the sky birds of the 

 four cardinal points, two of which are larger, two smaller, apparently 

 made so for want of room. The central figure represents the heart of 

 the sk}' with geometrical rain-cloud figures. The sky god has a 

 number of names. 



In the upper figure (see Plate 216), the designs have got past the 

 pictorial stage, and the meaning could onlv be known by consulting 

 the maker of the basket. It is doubtful whether she did any more 

 than what she saw her mother do. It might be possible, if a large 

 series were had, to follow this s3^mbol outward to the known pictorial 

 form. 



The lower figure in this plate represents the four birds of the car- 

 dinal points. The standard colors of the cardinal points are not all 

 in the design because the basket itself is yellow, which deprived the 

 workwoman of the privilege of representing the north. The symbol 

 is very highly conventionalized. 



The figures on both examples, Plate 30, denote rain clouds. 



The same t3^pes of symbolism, occasioned b}" the climate, the ph3^s- 

 ical features and productions of the arid region will be found at Zuiii 

 and among the Rio Grande Pueblos." Symbolism on the basketry of 

 Middle and South America has not been worked out. 



" F. H. Cushiiio;, A i^^tudyof Pueblo Potter)-, Fourth Annual Eeportof the Bureau 

 of P'.thnology, "Washington, 1887, pY». 467-521. 



For a fuller explanation of the rich symbolism surviving in the Pueblo region the 

 reader must consult the papers of J. "W. Fewkes, to be found illustrated in the Amer- 

 ican Anthropologist, N. S., V, 1899-1903, and in the reports of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. 



A Study of Textile Art in Its Eelation to the Development of Form and Ornament, 

 Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 1889, pp. 189-252; 

 also. Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States, Thirteenth Annual Eeport of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 1896, pp. 3-45 



