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kept in small gourd or clay vases, around the necks of which a string 
with attached feathers is tied. Such a vase is the so-called patne which 
has been described in a memoir on the Snake ceremonies at Walpi.! 
The artistic tendency of the ancient people of Sikyatki apparently 
exhibited itself in painting these feathers on the outside of similar 
small vases. Plate Oxi, a, shows one of these vessels, decorated with 
an elaborate design with four breath-feathers suspended from the equa- 
tor. (See also figure 273.) On the vases shown in plate CxLU, b, ¢, are 
found figures of tail-feathers arranged in two groups on opposite sides 
of the rim or orifice. One of these groups has eight, the other seven, 
figures of these feathers, and on the two remaining quadrants are the 
star emblems so constantly seen in pottery decorated with bird figures. 
The upper surface of the vase (figure 274) shows a similar arrange- 
ment, although the feathers here are conventionalized into triangular 
dentations, seven on 
one side and three on 
the other, individual 
dentations alternating 
with rectangular de- 
signs which suggest 
rain-clouds. This vase 
(plate CxLin, a, b) is 
also striking in having 
a well-drawn figure of 
a bird in profile, the 
head, wings, tail, and 
legs suggesting a par- 
rot. The zone of dee- 
oration of this vessel, 
which surrounds the 
rows of feathers, is strikingly complicated, and comprises rain-cloud, 
feather, and other designs. 
In a discussion of the significance of the design on the food bowl 
represented in plate CXxXIX, a, b, I have shown ample reason for regard- 
ing it a figure of a highly conventionalized bird. On the upper surface 
of the vase (plate CxLiv, a, b) are four similar designs, representing 
birds of the four cardinal points, one on each quadrant. The wings are 
represented by triangular extensions, destitute of appendages but with 
arounded body at their point of juncture with the trunk. Each bird 
has four tail-feathers and rain-cloud symbols on the anterior end of the 
body. As is the case with the figures on the food basins, there are 
crosses representing stars near the extended wings. A broad band 
connects all these birds, and terraced rain-cloud symbols, six in num- 
Fic. 273—Pendent feather ornaments on a vase. 
1Journal of American Ethnology and Archeology, vol. 1v. These water gourds figure conspicuously 
in many ceremonies of the Tusayan ritual. The two girls personating the Corn-maids carry them in 
the Flute observance, and each of the Antelope priests at Oraibi bears one of these in the Antelope or 
Corn dance. 
