12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 76 



As the use of the objects which these figures represent is purely 

 conjectural it is much to be hoped that other bowls on which they 

 may be figured will later be brought to light for examination. 



The present figure (fig. 37) is from the original now in the U. S. 

 National Museum, and dififers from the former illustration ' in the 

 tail feathers which are unique. Each of the six tail feathers bifurcates 

 into two parallel lines as here shown (fig. 37). The wing is highly 

 symbolic ; its central part in the original has a brown color which is 

 here incorrectly indicated by parallel lines resembling hachures else- 

 where shown. We have only one-half of this bowl, but there were 

 undoubtedly two parrots on it when complete. The triangular object 

 in front of the parrot is connected in some way with the " sword " 

 elsewhere considered. 



Portions of a head and tail of an animal are shown in figure 38. 

 Enough is preserved to indicate that they are parts of a bird figm^e 

 carrying a twig of leaves or feathers in the mouth. The middle of the 

 bowl is too much broken to enable one to determine the shape of the 

 body, wings, and the remainder of the design. 



The mouth of figure 39 has teeth unlike any genus of living bird 

 and the tail resembles that of a fish more than any other animal. The 

 specimen is owned by Mr. Eisele, of Fort Bayard. The head bears 

 two horns that remind one of some species of Cervidae, but the body 

 and wings are strictly avian. The correlation of a long neck and 

 legs exists in this picture. 



Figure 40 shows two negative designs, that above representing a 

 rabbit and the one below a highly conventionalized bird. These two 

 figures are separated by a band consisting of several parallel lines 

 black and white alternating. The original is in the Hulbert collection 

 at Pinos Altos. 



Figure 41 is a well drawn bird from the Eisele collection as seen 

 from the side. This bird shows a tail prolonged at the two corners into 

 pointed feathers and is the only bird design that has this characteristic. 



Figure 42 represents a man herding a turkey whose globular body 

 is different from that of any turkey yet described. The original 

 specimen is in the Watson collection at Pinos Altos. 



Two designs of figure 43 in Mrs. Watson's collection are supposed 

 to represent serpents, but their identification is doubtful. They are 

 comparable with the so-called serpents held by the priests shown in 

 figures 4 and 5. 



^ Designs on Prehistoric Pottery from the Mimbres Valley, fig. 46. Fig. 6 in 

 this article is a female figure with a basket on her back in which are twins, 

 each with a sun symbol. 



