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vessels, notably in the figure, undoubtedly of a bird, represented in 
plate CXLVI, a, 
In the two figures forming plate CLIV are found simple bird symbols 
and feather designs very much conventionalized. The same is true of 
the two figures given in plate CLY. 
The vessels illustrated in plate CLVI, a, b, are decorated with designs 
of unknown ineaning, save that the latter recalls the modification of 
the feather into long triangular forms. On the outer surface this bowl 
has a row of tadpoles encircling it in a sinistral direction, or with the 
center of the bowl on the left. The design of figure ¢ shows a bird’s 
head in profile, with a crest of feathers and with the two eyes on one 
side of the head and a necklace. The triangular figure bears the sym- 
bolism of the turkey feather, as at present designated in Tusayan altar 
paraphernalia. As with other bird figures, there is a representation in 
red of the triple star. 
Figure d is the only specimen of a vessel in the conventional form of 
a bird which was found at Sikyatki; it evidently formerly had a handle. 
The vessel itself is globular, and the form of the bird is intensified by 
the designs on its surface. The bird’s head is turned to the observer, 
and the row of triangles represent wing feathers. The signification of 
the designs on e and / is unknown to me. 
Figures e and / of plate CLVI are avian decorations, reduced in the 
case of the former to geometric forms. The triangular figure is a 
marked feature in the latter design. 
The designs represented in plate CLVII are aberrant bird forms. Of 
these a and } are the simplest and ¢ one of the most complicated. 
Figure d is interpreted as a double bird, or twins with a common head 
and tails pointing in opposite directions. Figure e shows a bird in pro- 
file with one wing, furnished with triangular feathers, extended. There 
is some doubt about the identification of fas a bird, but there is no 
question that the wing, tail, and breath feathers are represented in it. 
Of the last mentioned there are three, shown by the notch, colored 
black at their extremities. 
VEGETAL DESIGNS 
Inasmuch as they so readily lend themselves as a motive of decora- 
tion, it is remarkable that the ancient Hopi seem to have used plants 
and their various organs so sparingly in their pottery painting. Else- 
where, especially among modern Pueblos, this is not the case, and 
while plants, flowers, and leaves are not among the common designs 
on modern Tusayan ware, they are often employed. It would appear 
that the corn plant or fruit would be found among other designs, 
especially as corn plays a highly symbolic part in mythic conceptions, 
but we fail to find it used as a decoration on any ancient vessel. 
In a figure previously described, a flower, evidently an aster or sun- 
flower, appears with a butterfly, and in the bowl shown in plate 
