FEWKES] BIRD FIGURES ON POTTERY 685 
bases. The body is rectangular; the tail-feathers are numerous, with 
well-marked symbolism. Perhaps the most striking appendages to the 
body are the two well-defined extensions of parts of the body itself, 
which, although represented in other pictures of birds, nowhere reach 
such relatively large size. 
The figure of a bird shown in plate CXXXVIII, ¢, is similar in many 
respects to that last described. The semicircular markings on the head 
of the former are here replaced by triangles, but both are symbolic of 
rain-clouds. The wings are curved projections, without any sugges- 
tion of feathers or basal spurs and knobs. The tail-feathers show noth- 
ing exceptional, and the body is bounded posteriorly by triangular 
extensions, as in figures of birds already described. 
The representation of the bird in plate CXXXVIII, e, has a triangular 
body continued into two points on the posterior end, between which 
the tail-feathers are situated. The body is covered with terraced and 
triangular designs, and the head is rectangular in form. On each side 
of the bird figure there is a symbol of a flower, possibly the sunflower 
or an aster. 
In the figures of birds already considered the relative sizes of the 
heads and bodies are not overdrawn, but in the picture of a bird on 
the food bowl shown in plate CXxXVIII, /, the head is very much enlarged. 
It bears a well-marked terraced rain-cloud symbol above triaugles of 
the same meaning. The wings are represented as diminutive append- 
ages, each consisting of two feathers. The body has a triangular exten- 
sion on each side, and the tail is composed of two comparatively short 
rectangular feathers. The figure itself could hardly be identified as 
a representation of a bird were it not for the correspondence, part for 
part, with figures which are undoubtedly those of birds or flying animals. 
A more highly conventionalized figure of a bird than any thus far 
described is painted on the food bow] reproduced in plate CxL, b. ‘The 
head is represented by a terraced figure similar to those which appear 
as decorations on some of the other vessels; the wings are simply 
extended crescents, the tips of which are connected by a band which 
encircles the body and tail; the body is continued at the posterior 
end into two triangular appendages, between which. is a tail, the 
feathers of which are not differentiated. On each side of the body, in 
the space inclosed by the band connecting the tips of the wings, a fig- 
ure of a dragon-fly appears. 
The figure on the food bowl illustrated in plate CXXXIXx, c, may also 
be reduced to a conventionalized bird symbol. The two pointed objects 
on the lower rim represent tail-feathers, and the triangular appendages, 
one on each side above them, the body, as in the designs which have 
already been described. Above the triangles is a rectangular figure 
with terraced rain-cloud emblems, a constant feature on the body and 
head of the bird, and on each side, near the rim of the bowl, occur 
the primary feathers of the wings. The cross, so frequently associated 
