672 EXPEDITION TO ARIZONA IN 1895 [ETH. ANN. 17 
cultus was brought into Tusayan from a mythic land in the south, 
called Palatkwabi, and that the effigies and fetiches pertaining to it 
were introduced by the Patki or Water-house people. From good evi- 
dence, I suspect that the arrival of this phratry was comparatively 
late in Tusayan history, and it is possible that Sikyatki was destroyed 
before their advent, for in all the legends which I have been able to 
gather no one ascribes to Sikyatki any clan belonging to the phra- 
tries which are said to have migrated from the far south. I believe 
we must look toward the east, whence the ancestors of the Kokop or 
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Fig. 266—Plumed serpent 
Firewood people are reputed to have come, for the origin of the symbolic 
markings of the snakes represented on Sikyatki ceramics. Figures 
of apodal reptiles, with feathers represented on their heads, occur in 
Sikyatki pictography, although there is no resemblance in the markings 
of their bodies to those of modern pictures. One of the most strik- 
ing of these occurs on the inside of the food basin shown in plate 
OXXXII, a. It represents a serpent with curved body, the tail being 
connected with the head, like an ancient symbol of eternity. The body 
(figure 266) is destitute of any distinctive markings, but is covered 
with a crosshatching of black lines. The head bears two triangular 
