656 EXPEDITION TO ARIZONA IN 1895 [BTH. ANN. 17 
In addition to the various forms of pottery which have been men- 
tioned, there are also pieces made in the form of birds, one of the most 
typical of which is figured in plate oxi, c. In these objects the 
wings are represented by elevations in the form of ridges on the sides, 
and the tail and head by prolongations, which unfortunately were 
broken off. 
Toys or miniature reproductions of all the above-mentioned ceramic 
specimens occurred in several graves. These are often very roughly 
made, and in some cases contained pigments of different colors. The 
finding of a few fragments of clay in the form of animal heads, and one 
or two rude images of quadrupeds, would seem to indicate that some- 
times such objects were likewise deposited with the dead. A clay 
object resembling the flaring end of a flageolet and ornamented with a 
zigzag decoration is unique in the collections from Sikyatki, although 
in the western cemetery there was found a fragment of an earthenware 
tube, possibly a part of a flute. 
In order to show more clearly the association of mortuary objects in 
single graves a few examples of the grouping of these deposits will be 
given. 
In a grave in the western cemetery the following specimens were 
found: 1, ladle; 2, paint grinder; 3, paint slab; 4, arrowpoints; 5, 
fragments of a marine shell (Pectunculus); 6, pipe, with fragments of a 
second pipe, and 7, red paint (sesquioxide of iron). 
In the grave which contained the square medicine bowl shown in 
plate CXXVILI, a, a ladle containing food was also unearthed. 
The bowl decorated with a picture of a girl’s head was associated 
with fragments of another bowl and four ladles. 
Another single grave contained four large and small cooking pots 
and a broken metate. 
In a grave 8 feet below the surface in the western cemetery we 
found: 1, decorated food vessel; 2, black shoe shape cooking pot rest- 
ing in a food bowl and containing a small rude ladle; 3, coarse 
undecorated basin. 
A typical assemblage of mortuary objects comprised: 1, small deco- 
rated bowl containing polishing stones; 2, miniature cooking pot black- 
ened by soot; 3, two small food bowls. 
In modern Hopi burials the food bowls with the food for the dead 
are not buried with the deceased, but are placed on the mound of soil 
and stones which covers the remains. From the position of the mortu- 
ary pottery as regards the skeletons in the Sikyatki interments, it is 
probable that this custom is of modern origin. Whether in former 
times food bowls were placed on the burial mounds as well as in the 
grave I am not able to say. The number of food bowls in ancient 
graves exceeds those placed on modern burials. 
The Sikyatki dead were apparently wrapped in coarse fabrics, 
possibly matting. 
