FEWKES] REPTILIAN FORMS IN SIKYATKI POTTERY 671 
An enumeration of the pictographic representations of mammalia 
includes the beautiful food bowl shown in plate Cxxx, e, which is made 
of fine clay spattered with brown pigment. This design (reproduced 
in figure 264) represents probably some ruminant, as the mountain 
sheep or possibly the antelope, both of which gave names to clans 
said to have resided at Sikyatki. The hoofs are characteristic, and 
the markings on the back suggest a fawn or spotted deer. There isa 
close similarity between the design below this animal and that of the 
exterior decorations of certain vases and square medicine bowls. 
Among the pictures of quadrupedal animals depicted on ancient 
food bowls there is none more striking than that illustrated in plate 
Oxxx, f/f, which has been identified as the mountain lion. While this 
identification is more or less problematical, it is highly possible. The 
claws of the forelegs (figure 265) are evidently those of one of the 
carnivora of the cat family, of which the mountain lion is the most 
prominent in Tusayan. The anterior part of the body is spotted; the 
posterior and the hind legs are black. The snout bears little resem- 
blance to that of the puma. 
The entire inner surface of the bowl, save a central circle in which 
the head, fore-limbs, and anterior part of the body are represented, is 
decorated by spattering. Within this spattered area there are highly 
interesting figures, prominent among which is a squatting figure of a 
man, with the hand raised to the mouth and holding a ceremonial cig- 
arette, as if engaged in smoking. The seven patches in black might 
well be regarded as either footprints or leaves, four of which appear 
to be attached to the band inclosing the central area. In the intervals 
between three of these there are branched bodies representing plants 
or bushes. 
REPTILES 
Snakes and other reptilian forms were represented by the ancient pot- 
ters in the decoration of food bowls, and it is remarkable how closely 
some of these correspond in symbolism with conceptions still current 
in Tusayan. Of all reptilian monsters the worship of which forms a. 
prominent element in Hopi ritual, that of the Great Plumed Snake is 
perhaps the most important. Effigies of this monster exist in all the 
larger Hopi villages, and they are used in at least two great rites—the 
Soyaluna in December and the Paliiliikonti in March, as I have 
already described. The symbolic markings and appendages of the 
Plumed Snake eftigy are distinctive, and are found in all modern rep- 
resentations of this mystic being. While several pictographs of 
snakes are found on Sikyatki pottery, there is not a single instance in 
which these modern markings appear; consequently there is consid- 
erable doubt in regard to the identification of many of the Sikyatki 
serpents with modern mythologic representatives. 
In questioning the priests in regard to the derivation of the Plumed 
Serpent cult in Tusayan, I have found that they declare that this 
