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Exact identifications of these pictures with the animals by which 
the Hopi are or were surrounded, is, of course, impossible, for they are 
not realistic representations, but symbolic figures of mythic beings 
unknown save to the imagination of the primitive mythologist. 
A similar reptile is pictured on the food bowl shown in plate Cxxxu, d, 
in which design, however, there are important modifications, the most 
striking of which are: (1) The animal (figure 268) has both fore and 
hind legs represented; (2) the head is round; (3) the mouth is provided 
with teeth; and (4) there are four instead of two feather appendages 
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Fic. 267—Unknown reptile 
on the head, two of which are much longer than the others. Were it 
not that ears are not represented in reptiles, one would be tempted to 
regard the smaller appendages as representations of these organs. 
Their similarity to the row of spines on the back and the existence of 
spines on the head of the ‘“‘horned toad” suggests this reptile, with 
which both ancient and modern Hopi are very familiar. Ona fragment 
of a vessel found at Awatobi there is depicted the head of a reptile 
evidently identical with this, since the drawing is an almost perfect 
reproduction. There is a like figure, also from Sikyatki, in the col- 
