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zon, etc., being obliterated. Sometimes the whole area is occupied 

 with bands of geometric or continuous figures in squares. Several 

 examples show a two part design, probably birds outlining an 

 elliptic or bilobed figure, undecorated, obliterating the central circle 

 (pi. 37, fig. 6). Rarely in wicker baskets are the radiating arms of 

 the prime compass points represented (pi. 35, fig. 4), but frequently 

 in coiled plaques (pi. 38, fig. 1; pi. 40, fig. 2; pi. 41, fig. 1). The 

 middle portion of coiled and wicker plaques is differently treated. 

 In wicker plaques the central area is usually decorated only with a 

 stepped diagonal line in the placket in the center formed by over- 

 laying the crossed splints, rods which form the skeleton of the 

 basket. The circular area is bordered with a band of alternating 

 white and colored rectangles (figures in pi. 35 and others). In the- 

 coiled plaque the design begins generally at the second turn of th& 

 coil. In bird designs the beaks are placed to the center of coiled 

 baskets and to the margin in wicker plaques (figs, in pi. 33) ; for 

 coil (pL 38, figs. 5, 6; pi. 40, figs. 2, 3). 



The designs on wicker plaques figured show birds and clouds in 

 recognizable, somewhat realistic forms (pi. 33) ; modified by the de- 

 signers, but recognizable (pi. 34) ; and converted entirely into geo- 

 metries (pi. 35). Plate 36 shows kachina and other special designs- 

 Plate 37 shows in figure 1 four antelope in simple line design, which 

 may be compared with the fine realistic designs on the coiled plaque 

 plate 40, figure 1. Figures 3-6 of plate 41 are motion designs and 

 special designs. 



The designs on coiled plaques show birds and birds and clouds 

 (pi. 38) ; four and two bird conventions (pi. 39) ; antelope realistie 

 design and complex bird designs (pi. 40) ; and designs of birds and 

 perhaps snakes showing motion (pi. 41). 



As designs become more conventional they tend to overlap; thus^ 

 birds and clouds represented as stepped figures can not be distin- 

 guished. Likewise the bird or cloud form may be reduced to a star 

 symbol (pi. 36, fig. 1), or a dragonfly which would be represented as 

 plate 34, figure 1. 



The bird represented is doubtless the eagle primarily, but other 

 birds may occur. The bird in figure 6, plate 38, suggests the bird fig- 

 ures mounted on a rod and pedestal used in certain ceremonies of the 

 Hopi and especially among the Zufii. 



STONE. 



Although their arts have been modified by contact with the white 

 man, the Hopi possess a number of uses of stone inherited from an- 

 other period. These are the met ate and mano for grinding corn 

 and the stone hand hammer for working as well as sharpening them ; 



