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the case in so many bird figures, and tlie tail feathers are indicated 

 by short, stumpy, parallel lines attached to one side of a triangle. 

 The middle of the body is represented by a lozenge-shaped figure, in 

 the center of which is a dot. Trifid triangular designs jdternate 

 with the bird figures, and the bird figures are arranged as though 

 moving in a sinistral circuit. 



The figure of a bird on a food bowl from Chaves jiass (figure 30) is 

 characteristic. This represents a toothed bird, a conception often 

 repeated in the ancient pueblo pictography. Both eyes are on one side 

 of the head, Avhich is rounded posteriorly and prolonged into an upper 

 and lower dentate beak. 'J'he triangular wings ai-e terraced or 



Fig. ;fl. Bird rlesinn on food howl from Homolobi i number 156603). 



notched on one edge, and the tail is ti-iangular, with short, white 

 appendages representing feathers. Although a simple ligiirc, this is 

 one of the most instructive bird designs in the collection. The con- 

 ception of a toothed bird is certainly remarkable, but we find it still 

 current in the Walpi ritual, where it is personated, as in the so-called 

 Natackas which appear in the Powamu, or Bean-planting, a ceremony 

 when the fields are prepared for planting. 



The figure of a bird represented on a food bowl from Homolobi 

 shown in figure 31 is different from any elsewhere collected. Par- 



