FEWKES] REPTILIAN FIGURES ON POTTERY 675 
lection of pottery made at that ruin by Dr Miller, of Prescott, the 
year following my work there. The most elaborate of all the pictures 
of reptiles found on ancient Tusayan pottery is shown in plate CXXXII, e, 
in which the symbolism is complicated and the details carefully worked 
out. A few of these symbols I am able to decipher; others elude pres- 
ent analysis. There is no doubt as to the meaning of the appendage 
to the head (figure 269), for it well portrays an elaborate feathered 
headdress on which the markings that distinguish tail-feathers, three 
Fia. 268—Unknown reptile 
in number, are prominent. The extension of the snout is without 
homologue elsewhere in Hopi pictography, and, while decorative in 
part, is likewise highly conventionalized. On the body semicircular 
rain cloud symbols and markings similar to those of the bodies of cer- 
tain birds are distinguishable. The feet likewise are more avian than 
reptilian, but of a form quite unusual in structure. It is interesting to 
note the similarity in the curved line with six sets of parallel bars to 
the band surrounding the figure of the human hand shown in plate 
OXXXVI, c. In attempting to identify the pictograph on the bowl repro- 
