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duced in plate CxxXxIv, a, there is little to guide me, and the nearest I 
can come to its significance is to ascribe it to a reptile of some kind. 
Highly symbolic, greatly conventionalized as this figure is, there is 
practically nothing on which to base the absolute identification of the 
figure save the serrated appendage to the body and the leg, which 
resembles that of the lizard as it is sometimes drawn. The two eyes 
indicate that the enlargement in which these were placed is the head, 
Fic. 269—Unknown reptile 
and the extended curved snout a beak. All else is incomprehensible 
to me, and my identification is therefore provisional and largely 
speculative. 
I wish, however, in leaving the description of this beautiful bowl, to 
inyite attention to the brilliancy and the characteristics of the coloring, 
which differ from the majority of the decorated ware from Sikyatki. 
Among the fragments of pottery found in the Sikyatki graves there 
was one which, had it been entire, would doubtless have thrown con- 
siderable light on ancient pictography. This fragment has depicted 
