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So far as decorative elements are concerned the design in figure 349 
can be compared with some of those preceding, but it differs from them 
in combination. The motive in figure 350 is not unlike the ornamenta- 
tion of certain oriental vases, except from the presence of the terraced 
Fig. 347—S-pattern 
figures. In figure 351 there are two designs separated by an inclined 
break the edge of which is dentate. This figure is introduced to show 
the method of treatment of alternating triangles of varying depth of 
color and the breaks in the marginal bands or “lines of life.” One of 
Fic, 3428—Triangular and terrace figures 
the simplest combinations of triangular and rectangular figures is 
shown in figure 353, proving how effectually the original design may 
be obscured by concentration. 
In the foregoing descriptions I have endeavored to demonstrate that, 
Fic. 349—Crook, terrace, and parallel lines 
notwithstanding the great variety of designs considered, the types 
used are very limited in number. The geometrical forms are rarely 
curved lines, and it may be said that spirals, which appear so constantly 
on pottery from other (and possibly equally ancient or older) pueblos 
Fic. 350—Triangles, squares, and terraces 
than Sikyatki, are absent in the external decorations of specimens 
found in the ruins of the latter village. 
Every student of ancient and modern Pueblo pottery has been 
impressed by the predominance of terraced figures in its ornamenta- 
tion, and the meaning of these terraces bas elsewhere been spoken of 
