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most remarkable of all the appendages are those on the tail, the mean- 

 ing of wliich the author can not interjiret. It was sometimes cus- 

 tomary to equip a bird flgure with a long snout in which were teeth, 

 and this conception persists among the Ilopis, ais has been noted above. 

 It is interesting to note that in this figure, as in the majority of bird 

 figures from the Little Colorado ruins, the tail is i-epresented by a 

 triangle, and the tail feathers or their tips by three parallel lines. 



The interior of the food bowl shown in figui-e 34 is decorated with 

 a bird design which exhibits some of the notable violations oi per- 

 spective common in ancient Tusayan art. AVe here find wings, legs, 



Fig. .^H. Mythic bird figure on food bowl from Chevlon (nnmbei' 15"2fi4 1. 



and tail feathers shown on the same plane, notwithstanding that a 

 side view was intended. 



The indication of the claws by crescents in tliis flgure is interesting. 

 The same method is adopted in another bird figure, in which there 

 are in each foot two short parallel lines. This method is likewise 

 iised in one of the designs from Sikyatki which was identified as rep- 

 resenting an unknown reptile." There is some doubt whether this 

 figure represents a lizard or a bird, for a considerable part of the 

 body is posterior to the appendages. If we consider the posterior 



" Seventeentli Annxial Report Bureau of American Ethnology, pt. 2, 1898, figure 269. 



