4O SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 63 



ANIMALS NOT IDENTIFIED 



Unidentified Animal. It is difficult to tell exactly what animal was 

 intended to be represented by that shown in plate 5, figure 2. Its 

 head and mouth are not those of any of the horned animals already 

 considered, although it has some anatomical features recalling a 

 mountain sheep. The extension back of the body has a remote like 

 ness to a fish, but may be a bird or simply a conventional design. The 

 geometrical figure covering the side of the body bears some likeness 

 to one depicted on a bird, as shown in plate 3, figure i. The same 

 geometrical figure sometimes also occurs separated from any animal 

 form in Sikyatki pottery. 1 



The bowl is ten inches in diameter, five inches in depth, and the 

 figures are painted red on a white ground. 



Unidentified Animal. One of the most remarkable of many fig 

 ures on bowls from Oldtown in the collection of Mr. E. D. Osborn is 

 shown in figures 27, 29 (p. 38) . Three colors enter into the decoration 

 of this bowl, black, white, and brown, and there are two types of orna 

 mentation, one zoic, the other geometric. The bowl itself was much 

 broken when found, but not so mutilated as to hide the main designs. 



The zoic figures represent animals with square bodies, four legs, 

 ears, head, and tail like a young antelope. There is no design on the 

 side of the body, but in its place four broad parallel bands extend 

 from the belly .across the bowl. Each group of parallel lines changes 

 its direction, widening in their course or near the ends where they 

 enlarge for the accompanying figure. The markings on the necks of 

 these figures suggest those on fawns. 



The elaborate geometric figure composed of a scroll and comma- 

 like dot and eye is a highly conventionalized symbol, possibly of some 

 animal, as a bird s head, common on Casas Grandes pottery. 



There is a bowl on exhibition in the Chamber of Commerce at 

 Deming with a picture of a quadruped resembling a deer, but the 

 base is so fractured in killing that it is difficult to determine the shape 

 of the body or its decoration. 



Unidentified Animal. One of the most instructive figures of the 

 collection appears in duplicate on a large food bowl (pi. 5, fig. i). 

 This vessel is black and white in color and measures fifteen inches in 



1 I7th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pis. 121 a, 138^. There are one .or two 

 examples of Sikyatki pottery where a geometrical design is attached to an 

 animal figure which leads to the belief that possibly the figure attached to the 

 rear of the above may not represent a part of another animal but rather a 

 geometrical design of unknown significance, in this particular recalling old 

 time Hopi ware. 



