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Walpi,' and pictures of him, as he exists in modern conceptions, have 
been drawn for me by the priests. These agree so closely with the picto- 
graph and with the representation on the potsherd from Sikyatki, that 
I regard it well-nigh proven that they represent the same personage. 
The head is round and bears two feathers, while the star emblem 
appears in the eye. The wing and the stump of a tail are well repre- 
Fia. 275—Kwataka eating an animal 
sented, while the leg has three talons, which can only be those of this 
monster. He holds in his grasp some animal form which he is repre- 
sented as eating. Across the body is a kilt, or ancient blanket, with 
four diagonal figures which are said to represent flint arrowheads. 
It is a remarkable fact that these latter symbols are practically the 
same as those used by Nahuatl people for obsidian arrow- or spear- 
1“A few Tusayan Pictographs; American Anthropologist, Washington, January, 1892 
