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straight lines. 1 Accompanying the figure of a serpent is a well-drawn 

 picture of a turtle which is decorated on the carapace with a rectangu 

 lar area on which is painted a geometric figure recalling that on bodies 

 of birds and some other animals. 



FISHES 



One of the bowls (fig. 30) from the Oldtown ruin has two fishes 

 depicted on opposite sides of the inner surface. These fishes resemble 

 trout and are of different colors, black and reddish brown figures 



FIG. 30. Fish. Oldtown Ruin. Diam. 9&quot;. 



painted on a white ground. They are represented as hanging from 

 two parallel lines surrounding the rim of the bowl. These fishes are 

 so well drawn that there is no doubt what animal was intended to be 

 here represented. On the interior of another bowl excavated by the 

 author at Oldtown there is a picture of a fish which recalls the two 



1 Of all the designs representing the horned snake known to the author 

 this picture from the Mimbres resembles most closely the pictures of this 

 being on pottery from Casas Grandes. It has, however, the single horn found 

 on the clay image in the Hano altar of the Winter Solstice Ceremony, although 

 quite unlike figures on pottery from the Pajarito region. The bodily decora 

 tions in the Mimbres bowl are unlike those of the Hopi horned snake. 



