NO. 8 DESIGNS ON MIMBRES POTTERY FEWKES 7 



is not crescentic as in most fishes but is indicated by a white line. The 

 head, fins, and tail are black ; ankles of all men are white in color. 



In figure 9 a man holding a bow and arrow is shown ; head and limbs 

 are evident, but the bowl is so broken that other details do not appear. 



The head of the animal represented in figure 10 resembles that of 

 a carnivorous animal, as a mountain lion. The remarkable feature in 

 this figure is the tail, which is very much thickened and elongated, 

 bearing a terraced design on the surface and ending in a triangular 

 tip. A chevron figure on the head of this animal has some resemblance 

 to one on a serpent figured elsewhere.' 



The design figured on the inside of the food bowl (fig. 11) repre- 

 sents a quadruped with a very long tail, curving over the back and 

 ending in a white tip. Attention should be called to the fact that in 

 this figure the anterior legs bend forward, and not backward, which 

 is the general case in most quadrupeds. This animal is apparently 

 walking on his tail and perhaps visualizes some ancient myth similar 

 to one to which my attention has been called as existing among the 

 Plains Indians. 



The quadruped depicted in figure 12 evidently represents some 

 carnivorous animal of the cat group, resembling somewhat a wolverine. 

 The interior of the bowl was so much broken that only one figure 

 remained, the duplication Ijeing restored. 



Figure 13 is a figure of a mountain sheep or goat not unlike some 

 other representations of the same animal elsewhere figured. 



We have in figure 14 a representation of a mountain goat, the form 

 and attitude of which is highly characteristic. In figure 15. which 

 represents a mountain sheep, the dift'erences are brought out. 



Figure 16 represents a mountain lion but dififers from any vet 

 figured in the white line that extends from the ears to the throat. 

 The tail in this figure is turned over the back — an almost universal 

 position in pueblo pictures of the mountain lion. 



Figure 17 is a negative picture, or one in white on a black back- 

 ground, representing a rabbit. The ears bear the customary black 

 spots, and the eye is circular in form. 



Figures 18, 19, each represent two rabbits painted black on a 

 white ground. The body of one is marked with a longitudinal curved 

 white band with black dots, the other with a checkerboard pattern. 

 But few instances of rabbit pictures are known to me in which the 

 side of the body is decorated with any figure. 



* This figure has, however, a cephalic horn which is absent in the design 

 considered, which also has two ears. 



