FEWKES] FOOD-BOWL DECORATIONS TAT 
are reducible to these types. The simplest form of the key pattern is 
shown in figure 314, and in figure 315 there is a second modification 
of the same design a little more complicated. This becomes somewhat 
changed in figure 316, not only by the modifications of the two extremi- 
ties, but also by the addition of a median geometric figure. 
Fia. 318—Rectangle, triangle, and serrate spurs 
The design in figure 317 is rectangular, showing a key pattern at one 
end, with two long feathers at the opposite extremity. The five bodies 
on the same end of the figure are unique and comparable with conven- 
tionalized star emblems. The series of designs in the upper left-hand 
end of this figure are unlike any which have yet been found on the 
Fia. 319—W-pattern; terminal crooks 
exterior of food bowls, but are similar to designs which have elsewhere 
been interpreted as feathers. On the hypothesis that these two parts 
of the figure are tail-feathers, we find in the crook the analogue of the 
head of a bird. Thus the designs on the equator of the vase (plate 
CXLV, a), which are birds, have the same crook for the head, and two 
Fic. 320—W-pattern; terminal rectangles 
simple tail-feathers, rudely drawn but comparable with the two in figure 
317. The five dentate bodies on the lower left-hand end of the figure 
also tellin favor of the avian character of the design, for the following 
reason: These bodies are often found accompanying figures of conven- 
tionalized birds (plates GxLIv, CLIV, and others). They are regarded 
as modified crosses of equal arms, which are all but universally present 
in combinations with birds and feathers (plates CXLIV, a,b; CL1YV, a), from 
