FEWKEs] BIRD FIGURES ON LITTLE COLORADO POTTERY 79 



appendages as a pair of legs, they bend the wrong way, unless the 

 whole portion from tlic angle to the claws is regarded as foot. This is 

 not an avian featnre, bnt the presence of semicircles and triangles on 

 the bodj' is characteristic of bird symbolism. 



In studying the different figures of reptiles from ancient potterj' the 

 author finds no other in which the feet have this form — which occurs 

 in undoubted bird figures from Ilomolobi and Chevlou. It miglit 

 therefore be concluded that the Sikyatki figure was wrongly identi- 

 fied and should be called a bird. Thei'e are, however, almost fatal 

 objections to this identification. 'Die most striking of these is the 



Fig. 34. Bird flgui-e on food bowl from Chevlon (number 1.57084i. 



elongated form of the body. Tlie anterior appendage, which is 

 identified as a leg, can hardly be homologized with a wing, although 

 it must be confessed that the parallel lines may lie feathers. 



The reexamination of the figure in the light shed on the sulijecti 

 by the bird figures fi-om Ilomolobi reveals that it has botli l)ird and 

 rei)tilian features, and that tlie former pi-edominate. 



Two raptorial birds are painted on the food bowl shown in figure oo, 

 on opposite sides of terraced figures which recall cloud symbols. The 

 birds are shown in profile, with l)oth eyes on one side of the head 



