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Yhe specimen represented in figure 340 has as its decorative ele- 
ments, rectangles, triangles, parallel lines, and birds’ tails, to which 
may be added star and crosshatch motives. It is therefore the most 
complicated of all the exterior decorations which have thus far been 
considered. Thereis no symmetry in the arrangement of figures about 
a central axis, but rather a repetition of similar designs. 
The use of crosshatching is very common on the most ancient Pueblo 
ware, and is very common in designs on cliff-house pottery. This style 
Fic. 341—Rectangles, stars, crooks, and parallel lines 
of decoration is only sparingly used on Sikyatkiware. The crosshatch- 
ing is provisionally interpreted as a mosaic pattern, and reminds one 
of those beautiful forms of turquois mosaic on shell, bone, or wood 
found in ancient pueblos, and best known in modern times in the square 
ear pendants of Hopi women. Figure 340 is one of the few designs 
having terraced figures with short parallel lines depending from them. 
These figures vividly recall the rain-cloud symbol with falling rain rep- 
Fic. 342—Continuous crooks 
resented by the parallel lines. Figure 341 is a perfectly symmetrical 
design with figures of stars, rectangles, and parallel lines. It may be 
compared with that shown in figure 340 in order to demonstrate how 
wide the difference in design may become by the absence of symmet- 
rical relationship. It has been shown in some of the previous motives 
that the crook sometimes represents a bird’s head, and parallel lines 
appended to it the tail-feathers. Possibly the same interpretation may 
Fia. 3483—Rectangular terrace pattern 
be given to these designs in the following figures, and the presence of 
stars adjacent to them lends weight to this hypothesis. 
An indefinite repetition of the same pattern of rectangular design is 
shown in figure 342, This highly decorative motive may be varied 
indefinitely by extension or concentration, and while it is modified in 
that manner in many of the decorations of vases, it is not so changed 
on the exterior of food bowls. 
