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and sent Paliiliikon (the Plumed Snake) to tell the Hopi that Calako 
would never return to them, but that the boy hero should wear his 
mask and represent him, and his festival should be celebrated when 
they had a proper number of novices to be initiated.” ! 
Several food. basins from Sikyatki have a human hand depicted upon 
them, and in one of these both hands are represented. On the most 
perfect of these hand figures (plate CXxxvVI1, ¢) a wristlet is well rep- 
resented, with two triangular figures, which impart to it an unusual 
form. From between the index and second finger there arises a tri- 
angular appendage, which joins a graceful curve, extending on one side 
to the base of the thumb and coutinued on the other side to the arm. 
The whole inside of the basin, except the figure of the hand and its 
appendage, is decorated with spattering,? and on the outside there is 
a second figure, evidently a hand or the paw of some animal. This 
external decoration also has a triangular figure in which are two ter- 
races, recalling rain-cloud symbols. 
One of the most interesting representations of the human hand (figure 
354) is found on the exterior of a beautiful bowl. The four fingers and 
the thumb are shown with representations of nails, a unique feature 
in such decorations. From between the index finger and the next, or 
rather from the tip of the former, arises an appendage comparable with 
that before mentioned, but of much simpler form. The palm of the 
hand is crossed by a number of parallel lines, which recall a custom of 
using the palm lines in measuring ceremonial prayer sticks, as I have 
described in a memoir on the Snake dance. In place of the arm this 
hand has many parallel lines, the three medial ones being continued 
far beyond the others, as shown in the figure. 
QUADRUPEDS 
Figures of quadrupeds are sparingly used in the decoration of food 
bowls or basins, but the collection shows several fine specimens on which 
appear some of the mammalia with which the Hopi are familiar. Most 
of these are so well drawn that there appears to be no question as to 
their identification. 
One of the most instructive of these figures is shown in plate Cxxx, 
a, which is much worn, and indistinct in detail, although from what 
can be traced it was probably intended to represent. a mythic creature 
known as the Giant Elk. The head bears two branched horns, drawn 
without perspective, and the neck has a number of short parallel 
marks similar to those occurring on the figure of an antelope on the 
1The celebration occurs in the modern Tusayan pueblos in the Powami where the representative of 
Calako flogs the children. Calako’s picture is found on the Powamd altars of several of the villages 
of the Hopi. 
2¥Figures of the human hand have been found on the walls of cliff houses. These were apparently 
made in somewhat the same way as that on the above bowl, the hand being placed on the surface and 
pigment spattered about it. See ‘‘ The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly,” by Cosmos Mindeleff; Six- 
teenth Annual Report, 1894-95. 
