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that many of these have plantigrade paws like those of the bear and 
badger. The appendages to the head in this figure remind one of 
those of certain forms regarded as reptiles, with which this may be 
identical. 
In another decoration we have what is apparently the same animal 
furnished with both fore and hind legs, the tail curving upward like 
that of a cottontail rabbit, which it resembles in other particulars as 
well. This figure also hangs by a band from a geometric design 
formed of two crescents and bearing four parallel marks representing 
Fic. 265—Mountain lion 
feathers. The single crescent depicted on the inside of the ladle 
shown in plate Cxxx1, b, is believed to represent the same conception, 
or the moon; and in this connection the very close phonetic resem- 
blance between the Hopi name for moon! and that for the mammal 
may be mentioned. In the decoration last described the same cres- 
centic figure is elaborated into its zobmorphic equivalent. 
1Muryi, mole or gopher; mutiyawi, moon. There may be some Hopi legend connecting the gopher 
with the moon, but thus far it has eluded my studies, and I can at present do no more than call atten- 
tion to what appears to be an interesting etymological coincidence. 
