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The well-drawn figure painted on a bowl (pi. i, fig. 2) from 

 Oldtown ruin represents a man with knees extended and arms raised 

 as if dancing. This picture has characteristic markings on the face, 

 but otherwise is not distinctive. 



QUADRUPEDS 



Wolf. — Although there are not sufficiently characteristic features 

 represented in the next figure (pi. 2, fig. i) ' to identify it satisfac- 

 torily, the form of the head, tail, mouth, and ears suggests a wolf.' 

 The square design' covering one side of the body seems to the 



Fig. 19. — Antelope. (Osborn collection.) Diam. 10". 



author not to belong to the animal itself, for an Indian who could 

 represent an animal as faithfully as those here pictured would not 

 place on it such markings unless for a purpose. It resembles the 

 small blankets sometimes worn by pet dogs or horses among white 

 people, which is a lame explanation, as dog and horse blankets were 



^ This picture resembles that of a wolf depicted on the east wall of the 

 warrior chamber at Walpi. See Amer. Anthrop. n. s., vol. 4, pi. 22. 



" Pictures of the mountain lion by Pueblo artists, at least among the Hopi, 

 have the tail turned over the back. The animal on the Mimbres bowl having 

 no horns is not a horned deer or antelope. 



^ The decoration of the bodies of animals with rectangular figures is a 

 common feature in Mimbres pottery, as will be seen in pictures of birds soon 

 to be considered. 



