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what it is considered to represent, the animal and bird patterns are 
by far the most numerous. The majority of these are geometric in 
form or highly conventionalized. It is interesting that most of the life 
forms which occur, such as birds and butterflies, are depicted both 
in realistic and in purely geometric or conventionalized patterns. 
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The different birds represented are quite clearly distinguishable, 
either in realistic or conventional art, by some peculiarity such as 
long wings (flying goose), exaggerated tail (swallow), short thick 
body (crow), or spread wings and tail (eagle). The varieties of 
snakes are less clearly differentiated, except the bull snake and striped 
