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diameter by six inches deep. The two designs occur on the two sides 

 of the interior of the bowl, the middle oi which is left without 

 decoration. 



The body of this creature is elongated and tapers backward, being 

 continued into a tail like that of the lizard. The head is long and the 

 snout pointed. Only two legs are represented, and these are situated 

 far back on the body near the point of the origin of the tail from the 

 body. A lozenge-shaped symbol forms the geometrical design on the 

 side. 



Fig. 27. — Unidentified animal. Oldtown Ruin. (Osliorn collection.) 



The presence of only two legs in this figure would seem to indicate 

 that a bird was intended, but no bird has a tail like this figure ; and the 

 prehistoric potters of the Mimbres certainly knew how to draw a bird 

 much better than this would imply. The exceptional features of this 

 drawing, doubtless intentional, belong neither to flesh, fish, nor fowl, 

 rendering its identification doubtful. 



GRASSHOPrER 



A figure on a bowl here represented (pi. 6, fig. i) is painted in 

 " black or brown on a background of bluish wash over a yellow color." 



^ This figure may also be identified as a locust. 



