FEWKES] BIRD AND FEATHER SYMBOLS 697 
bles. The two designs shown in plate CLI, e, /, are believed to be 
decorative, or, if symbolic, they have been so worn by the constant use 
of the vessel that it is impossible to determine their meaning by 
comparative methods. Both of these figures show the “line of life” in 
a somewhat better way than any yet considered. 
In plate cL, a, is shown a compound figure of doubtful significance, 
made up of a series of crescents, triangles, and spirals, which, in ¢, are 
more compactly joined together, and accompanied by three parallel 
lines crossing three other lines. The curved figure shown in b repre- 
sents three feathers; a large one on each side, inclosing a medially 
smaller member. In d is shown the spiral bird form with appended 
feathers, triangles, and terraced figures. Figure f/ of this plate is 
decorated with a design which bears many resemblances to a flower, 
the peripheral appendages resembling bracts of a sunflower. A some- 
what similar design is painted on the side of the helmets of some 
kateina dancers, where the bracts or petals are colored in sequence, 
with the pigments corresponding to the six directions—north, west, 
south, east, above, and below. In the decoration on the ancient 
Sikyatki bow] we find seven peripheral bracts, one of which is speckled. 
The six groups of stamens(?) are represented between the triangular 
bracts. 
The designs shown in plates CLI to CLY, inclusive, still preserve 
the spiral form with attached feathers, some of them being greatly 
conventionalized or differentiated. In the first of these plates (figure )) 
is represented a bird form with triangular head with four feathers 
arranged in fan shape. These feathers are different from any which 
I have been able to find attached to the bodies of birds, and are thus 
identified from morphological rather than from other reasons. 
The body of the conventionalized bird is decorated with terraced 
figures, spirals, flowers, and other designs arranged in a highly compli- 
cated manner. From a bar connecting the spiral with the encircling 
line there arises a tuft of feathers. Figure a of the same plate is charac- 
terized by a medially placed triangle and a graceful pendant from 
which hangs seven feathers. In this instance these structures take the 
form of triangles and pairs of lines. The relation of these structures 
to feathers would appear highly speculative, but they have been so 
interpreted for the following reason: If we compare them with the 
appendages represented in the design on the vase shown in CXLII, b, 
we find them the same in number, form, and arrangement; the triangles 
in the design on this vase are directly comparable with the figures in 
plate CxLi11, b, in the same position, which are undoubtedly feathers, as 
has been shown in the discussion of this figure. Consequently, although 
the triangles on the pendant in plate CLI, a, appear at first glance to 
have no relation to the prescribed feather symbol, morphology shows 
their true interpretation. The reduction of the wing feather to asimple 
triangular figure is likewise shown in several other pictures on food 
