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with a single feather on the head. The eyes are double and the snout 
continued into a long stick or tube, on which the animal stands. While 
the appendage to the head is undoubtedly a feather and the animal 
recalls a bird, I am in doubt as to its true identification. The star 
emblems on the handle of the ladle are in harmony with known pictures 
of birds. 
The feather decoration on the broken ladle shown in plate Cxxxt, f, is 
of more than usual interest, although it is not wholly comprehensible. 
The representations include rain-cloud symbols, birds, feathers, and 
falling rain. The medially placed design, with four parallel lines aris- 
ing from a round spot, is interpreted as a feather design, and the two 
triangular figures, one on each side, are believed to represent birds. 
The design on the food bowl depicted in plate CXXxXt, e, is obscure, 
but in it feather and star symbols predominate. On the inside of the 
ladle shown in plate CXXXxI, ce, there is a rectangular design with a 
conventionalized bird at each angle. 
The reduction of the figure of a bird 
to head, body, and two or more tail- 
feathers occurs very constantly in 
decorations, and in many instances 
nothing remains save a crook with 
appended parallel lines representing 
feathers. Examples of this kind oc- 
cur on several vessels, of which that 
shown in plate CXLy, a, is an 
example. 
There are many pictures of birds 
and feathers where the design has 
Fic. 276—Decoration on the bottom of plate become so conventionalized that it is 
eres very difficult to recognize the inten- 
tion of the decorator. Plate CxLvil, 7, shows one of these in which the 
feather motive is prominent and an approximation to a bird form 
evident. The wings are shown with a symmetric arrangement on the 
sides of the tail, while the latter member has the three feathers which 
form so constant a feature in many bird symbols. In b of the same 
plate there is shown a more elaborated bird figure, also highly modi- 
fied, yet preserving many of the parts which have been identified in 
the design last described. 
The beautiful design shown in plate CXLVI, e, represents a large 
breath feather with triangular appendages on the sides, recalling the 
posterior end of the body of the bird figures above discussed. 
The interior of the saucer illustrated in plate CLXVI, /, is decorated 
with feather symbols and four triangles. The remaining figures of 
this plate have already been considered. 
The figures on the vessel shown in plate CLXVII are so arranged that 
there can be little question of their homologies, and from comparisons 
it is clear that they should all be regarded as representations of birds. 
