FEWKEs] HUMAN FIGURES ON LITTLE COLORADO POTTERY 



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maidens, to which the author has called attention in his account of 

 designs from Sikyatki. The end of the handle of this ladle turns at 

 right angles, and suggests an explanation for numeroiis clay objects 

 of like shape which have been found elsewhere. 



Among- human figures, however, may be mentioned the unique 

 ornamentation on the inside of the vase from Homolobi (see figure i!-t), 

 where we have on one edge the representation of the head, neck, and 

 extended arms, one of which carries a rattle, the other a spear. A 

 line of footprints extends across the inner surface of this vase, and 

 the body and legs are represented on the opposite side. It will be 

 noticed that the portions of the human figure represented at the two 

 ends of the line of footprints are complemental ; the head and arms 

 appear at the bottom, the body and legs at the top. It would seem that 



Fig. 25. Quadruped figure on food bowl from Chaves pass (number 157570). 



the artist intended to represent the tracks of a seated figure at the 

 bottom of the line of footprints, the marks being paired at that point. 

 The inside of the food bowl .shown in plate xxvii b is decorated 

 with a human face, in which eyes and mouth are represented. Above 

 the head is a crescentic figure in white, resembliiig the moon, into the 

 concave side of which project four pairs of tubercles from the top of 

 the head. This is one of the few specimens from Homolobi in which 

 a human face is depicted. 



Quadruped Figures 



There were a few pictographs of four-legged animals, two of which 

 are identified as mammalian forms. Mythical lizards and batrachians 

 are represented, but no complete picture of anj- reptile was found 

 which could be identified. 



