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of its comb. To the spiral forming the pinion is attached a cock s beak turned 

 to the right, with a circle below it. In the second row is the representation of 

 another erect realistic cock (fr) with bent beak and bipartite tail. In the two 

 figures c we note a conventionalized tree, on the two side-branches of which two 

 cocks are perching. Of very peculiar shape are the cock-fishes d. Their heads 

 and bodies have fish shapes ; they terminate, however, in a three-lobetl cock-tail. 

 Their heads are turned away from each other. There are spiral fishes to be met 

 with in c, f, and^. k is a musk-deer with fish-body ; its hind-leg is a cock s beak 

 with the oval. In / are represented two cocks with their heads turned downward, 

 which bear, strange to say, triskeles-formed fishes on their heads, and have, be 

 sides, fish-shaped bodies. The fish-heads in which they end have two small 

 erect prongs of the same form as the ears of the musk-deer. In / and / the 

 double wave-lines are made use of as supports for cock-heads, of naturalistic rep 

 resentation in /( , of conventional form in /. in and n show the use of the facing 

 spirals, which are joined in n to fish-bodies above, and on the sides to conventional 

 ized cocks. In o the negative portions of the inner facing spirals are two con 

 ventionalized bipartite fishes ; on either side of them, and at the bottom of this 

 figure, are two strongly conventionalized cocks holding circles in their beaks. 



As regards the ornamentation on the garment in Fig. i, Plate xxx, the 

 rather naturalistic cock a is represented with four-pronged pinions and tail-feathers. 

 A conventionalized bipartite fish is designed on its body. Exactly the same 

 forms are shown in cock b, placed sideways, c, d, and e illustrate the combatant 

 cocks fashioned as on an escutcheon. They are most elaborate in c. Here the 

 head of the cock is designated by a heavy dot surmounted by a semicircle, 

 the beak being characterized by a smaller semicircle. Attached over its head is 

 a triskeles-shaped fish. The bodies of the two cocks are united into a heart- 

 shaped figure, to which are joined on either side the strongly marked, long wing- 

 feathers. The tail added under the cordate figure is treated as an independent 

 ornamental element, in which, properly speaking, a conventionalized cock with 

 fish-shaped body, wing and tail feathers, is to be recognized, d represents heads 

 and bodies of cocks in the form of erect fishes. Their gallinaceous character, 

 however, is sufficiently preserved by the four-lobed tail and the spur below it, 

 which latter they have in common. In c the heads have vanished ; the heart- 

 formed body, as in c, a spiral wing-feather, and a double-toothed tail-feather, are 

 visible. In f are two inverted conventionalized fishes placed around facing 

 spirals, just as \\\ g : in the latter case, however, the fish-heads are set with cock- 

 beaks which run parallel to the winding of the spiral. Of the different repre 

 sentations of the fish, the following are to be found here, h contains two 

 confronting erect fishes of naturalistic forms, with eyes, gills, a design on their 

 backs, fins, and spiral-formed tails. In i we see two fishes projecting from the 

 sides in an almost straight horizontal direction, whose heads are set with two off 

 shoots formed like cock-feathers. In j the fishes arise likewise from the sides, 

 but the heads are turned upward, and the bodies are coiled and have four fins. 



