FEWKES] BIRD AND FEATHER SYMBOLS 695 
There appears no necessity of discussing figures a and b of the plate 
in this interpretation. In figure c the center of the design becomes 
circular, recalling certain sun symbols, and the tail-feathers are readily 
recognized on one side. I am by no means sure, however, that the 
lateral terraced appendages at the opposite pole are representations of 
wings, but such an interpretation can not be regarded as a forced one. 
Figure d shows the three tail-feathers, lateral appendages suggestive 
of wings, and a square body with the usual decorations of the body 
and head of a bird. The design shown in figure / suggests in many 
ways a sun-bird, and is comparable with those previously studied and 
illustrated. There is no question of the homologues of tail, head, and 
wings. The meridional band across the bowl is similar to those 
already discussed, and its relationship to the head and tail of the bird 
identical. This design is interpreted as that of one of the numerous 
birds associated with the sun. The crescentic extension above what 
is apparently the head oceurs in many bird figures and may represent 
a beak, 
Many food bowls from Sikyatki are ornamented on their interior with 
highly conventionalized figures, generally of curved form, in which the 
feather is predominant. Many of these are shown in plates OXLyIII 
to CLVIL, inclusive, and in studying them I have found it very difficult 
to interpret the symbolism, although the figures of feathers are easy to 
find in many of them. While my attempt at decipherment is not 
regarded as final, it is hoped that it may at least reveal the important 
place which the feather plays in Tusayan ceramic decoration. 
Plate CXLVIII, a, shows the Spiral ornament worn down to its lowest 
terms, with no hint of the feather appendage, but its likeness in outline 
to those designs where the feather occurs leads me to introduce it in 
connection with those in which the feather is more prominent. Figure 
b of the same plate represents a Spiral figure with a bird form at the 
inner end, and a bundle of tail-feathers at the outer extremity. On this 
design there is likewise a figure of the dragon-fly and several unknown 
emblems. Figure ¢ has at one extremity a trifid appendage, recalling 
a feather ornament on the head of a bird shown in plate CXXXVIII, a. 
Figure d has no conventionalized feather decoration, but the curved 
line terminates with a triangle. Its signification is unknown to me. 
For several reasons the design in e reminds me of a bird; it is accom- 
panied by three crosses, which are almost invariably found in connec- 
tion with bird figures, and at the inner end there is attached a breath 
feather. This end of the figure is supposed to be the head, as will 
appear by later comparative studies. The bird form is masked in dis 
but the feather designs are prominent. This bowl is exceptional in 
having an encircling band broken at two points, one of the components 
of which is red, the other black. 
Feather designs are conspicuous in plate CXLIX, a, b, in the former 
of which curved incised lines are successfully used. In c, however, is 
