NO. IO ARCHEOLOGY OF MIMBRES VALLEY FEWKES 37 



The various birds differ considerably in their forms, organs, atti- 

 tudes, and appendages. Two of the pictures seem to represent the 

 same bird, but the others belong to different genera. There are one 

 or two figures in which feathers can be distinguished, but as a rule 

 they are fewer in number and the feathers less conventionalized than 

 in Sikyatki pottery. 



Pending the difficulty in identifying the various designs represent- 

 ing birds, they are designated by letters A, B, C, D, etc. 



Bird A. The figure shown in plate 3, figure I, is represented by 

 two designs, practically the same, repeated so far as appendages go, 

 but quite different in the ornamentation of their bodies. One of these 

 has the same geometrical figure on its body as on one of the quadru- 

 ped pictures, the second has a different design. Both birds have 

 wings outspread as if in flight, in which the feathers are well 

 drawn in detail, especially the wing on the side turned toward the 

 observer. That on the opposite side is simply uniformly black. 

 The feathers of its companion on the other side of the bowl are indi- 

 cated by parallel lines. The tail is long and forked at the extremity, 

 suggesting a hawk, and is decorated for two-thirds of its length with 

 cross-hatched and parallel lines. A triangular appendage arises from 

 the under side of the tail at the point where the line decoration ends, 

 forming an appendage which is likewise represented in the com- 

 panion picture. 



Bird B. Bird B (pi. 3, fig. 2) is painted on the interior of a food 

 bowl of black and white ware, ten inches in diameter by five inches 

 deep. Its body is oval, the head erect and undecorated, and the tail 

 twisted from a horizontal into a vertical plane as is customary in rep- 

 resentation of lateral views of birds from Pueblo ruins. The geo- 

 metric figure on the body is unfortunately somewhat obscured by the 

 plaster used in mending, but several parallel bars that may represent 

 feathers of the wings show through it, and a number of other designs 

 or parallel lines are apparent. An appendage of triangular form 

 hangs from the lower margin of the body and indicates the position 

 of one leg ; the other leg is missing. 



Bird C. Bird C, shown in plate 4, figure I, occurs on a black and 

 white bowl that measures ten inches in diameter, five and one-half 

 inches in depth. The figure occupies the circular zone in the middle of 

 the bowl and is enclosed by parallel lines which surround the bowl 

 near the rim. The top of the head, which is globular, is white in color, 

 the beak projecting and the eyes comparatively large. The body is 

 likewise globular and is covered by a square geometrical design the 

 details of which are considerably obscured by the hole in the middle of 



