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curved crook etched on a black ground. In no other exterior decora- 
tion have curved lines been found except in the form of circles, and it 
is worthy of note how large a proportion of the figures are drawn in 
straight lines. The circular figures with three parallel lines extending 
from them are found so constantly in exterior decorations, and are so 
strikingly like some of the figures elsewhere discussed, that I have ven- 
tured asuggestion in regard to their meaning. I believe they represent 
Fic. 309—Crooks and feathers 
feathers, because the tail-feathers of certain birds are symbolized in 
that manner, and their number corresponds with those generally 
depicted in the highly conventionalized tails of birds. With this 
thought in mind, it may be interesting to compare the two projections, 
one on each side of the three tail-feathers of this figure, with the 
extremity of the body of a bird shown in plate CXLI, e. On the supposi- 
Fic. 310—Rectangle, triangles, and feathers 
tion that a bird figure was intended in this design, it is interesting also 
to note the rectangular decorations of the body and the association with 
stars made of three blocks in several bird figures, as already described. 
It is instructive also to note the fact that the figure of a maid repre- 
sented in plate CXXIX, a, has two of the round designs with appended 
parallel lines hanging to her garment, and four parallel marks drawn 
Fia. 311—Terraced crook, triangle, and feathers 
from her blanket. It is still customary in Hopi ceremonials to tie 
feathers to the garments of those who personate certain mythic beings, 
and it is possible that such was also the custom at Sikyatki. If so, it 
affords additional evidence that the parallel lines are representations of 
feathers. 
in figure 308 a number of these parallel lines are represented, and 
the general character of the design is rectangular. In figure 309 is 
