FEWKES] KWATAKA, THE MAN-EAGLE 691 
ber and arranged in pairs, fill the peripheral sections between them. 
This vase, although broken, is one of the most beautiful and instructive 
in the rich collection of Sikyatki ceramies. 
I have not ventured, in the consideration of the manifold pictures of 
birds on ancient pottery, to offer an interpretation of their probable 
generic identification. There is no doubt, however, that they represent 
mythic conceptions, and are emblematic of birds which figured con- 
spicuously in the ancient Hopi Olympus. The modern legends of 
Tusayan are replete with references to such bird-like beings which play 
Fic. 274—Upper surface of vase with bird decoration 
important roles and which bear evidence of archaic origins. There is, 
however, one fragment of a food bowl which is adorned with a picto- 
graph so realistic and so true to modern legends of a harpy that I have 
not hesitated to affix to it the name current in modern Tusayan folklore. 
This fragment is shown in figure 275. 
According to modern folklore there once lived in the sky a winged 
being called Kwataka, or Man-eagle, who sorely troubled the ancients. 
He was ultimately slain by their War god, the legends of which have 
elsewhere been published. There is a pictograph of this monster near 
