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diameter by four and one-half in height. The design is cruciform in 

 arrangement, the four parts being joined in pairs by connecting lines. 

 It exhibits some very unusual fea- 

 tures .(Fig. 265), and we are led to 

 suspect that it may in some way have 

 been significant, or at least that it is 

 a copy of some emblematic device. 

 The almost total absence of life 

 forms in the art of the primitive 

 Pueblos has often been remarked. 

 One example only has been discov- 

 ered in this region. This occurs in 

 a subject painted on the inner sur- 

 face of a rather rude, oblong, bowl, 

 from the Saint George tumulus, Fig. 

 266. A checkered belt in black ex- 

 tends longitudinally across the bowl. 

 At the sides of this, near the middle, are two human figures, executed 



Fig. 263.— Paiuted device. 



FIG. 264.— Bowl from Kanab. — J. 



in the most primitive style, as shown in Fig. 267. Their angular forms 



are indicative of textile influence. 



The middle part of the bowl is 



broken out, so that the feet of one 



figure and the head of the other are 



lost. 



These figures resemble those 

 painted upon and picked in the 

 rocks of the pueblo region, and the 

 triangular head is sometimes seen 

 in the ceramic decoration of modern 

 tribes. A bowl with similar figures 

 was brought from Tusayau by Mr. 

 Mindelerf. It is illustrated in Fig. 



-WO. Fig. 265.— Painted device. 



