696 EXPEDITION TO ARIZONA IN 1895 [ETH. ANN. 17 
found the best example of the use of incised Work as an aid in pottery 
decoration, for in this specimen there are semicircles, and rings with 
four triangles, straight lines, and circles. The symbolism of the whole 
figure has eluded analysis. Figure d has no feather symbols, but e 
may later be reduced to a circle with feathers. The only symbols in 
the design shown in f which are at all recognizable are the two zigzag 
figures which may have been intended to represent snakes, lightning, 
or tadpoles. 
When the design in plate CL, a,is compared with the beautiful bowl 
shown in plate CxLVI, d, a treatment of somewhat similar nature is 
found. It is believed that both represent birds drawn in profile; the 
four bands (qa) are tail-feathers, while the rectangle represents the body 
and the curved appendage a part of the head. From a similarity 
to modern figures of a turkey feather, it is possible that the triangle at 
the end of the curved appendage is the feather of this bird. An exam- 
ination of ) leads to the conclusion that the inner end of the spiral 
represents a bird’s head. Two eyes are represented therein, and from 
it feathers areappended. The parallel marks on the body are suggest- 
ive of similar decorations on the figure of the Plumed Snake painted 
on the kilts of the Snake priests of Walpi. The star emblems are con- 
stant accompaniments of bird designs. Figure ¢ has, in addition to 
the spiral, the star symbols and what appears to be a flower. The de- 
sign shown in d is so exceptional that it is here represented with the 
circular forms. It will be seen that there are well-marked feathers in 
its composition. Figure f is made up of several bird forms, feathers, 
rectangles, and triangles, combined in a complicated design, the parts 
of which may readily be interpreted in the light of what has already 
been recorded. 
The significance of the spiral in the design on plate CLI, a, is unknown. 
It is found in several pictures, in some of which it appears to have 
avian relationship. Figure ) of the same plate is a square terraced 
design appended to the median line, on which symbolic stars are 
depicted. Asin many bird figures, a star is found on the opposite 
semicircle. There is a remote likeness between this figure and that of 
the head of the bird shown in plate CxLv, d. Plate CLI, c, isa compound 
figure, with four feathers arranged in two pairs at right angles to a 
median band. The triangular figure associated with them is sometimes 
found in symbols of the sun. Figure d is undoubtedly a bird sym- 
bol, as may be seen by a comparison of it with the bird figures shown 
in plate CXxxvill, a—f. There are two tail-feathers, two outstretched 
wings, and a head which is rectangular, with terraced designs. The 
cross is triple, and occupies the opposite segment, which is finely spat- 
tered with pigment. This trifid cross represents a game played by the 
Hopi with reeds and is depicted on many objects of pottery. As repre- 
sentations of it sometimes accompany those of birds I am led to interpret 
the figure (plate CLYII, c) as that of a bird, which it somewhat resem- 
