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and tail feathers thrown out of perspective. Wings are not repre- 

 sented, and the body is covered witli cross-hatched lines. In a bowl 

 from Shuiiiopovi we likewise find two birds represented from a differ- 

 ent point of view, and also teri'aced figures which have been inter- 

 preted as I'ain-cloud symbols. 



The triangular designs on the vase shown in figure 3tj are inter- 

 preted as feathers, or rather as the tails of birds with appended 

 feathers. The reason for tlie interpretation is to be found in the 

 study of the bodies of birds as represented in the Little Colorado pot- 

 tery. The author has elsewhei'e shown several instances in Sikyatki 



Fio. 35. Food Ijuwl with birrt 



pottery where symbolic feathers are represented as tied about the 

 neck of small vases, and even at the present day certain gourds in 

 which sacred water is brought from springs in kiva ceremonials have 

 feathers tied in this position. The triangle, as a feather symbol, is 

 still found ill certain altar pictures — ^as the snake-lightning designs in 

 sand of the Antelope altars. It is interesting to notice that these 

 feather symbols have paralhd white lines on one side. 



The only other sj'mbol with wliich these triangular figures on the 

 Iloiiiolobi vase could be identified are triangular rain clouds, the 

 short parallel lines representing falling rain. These symbols would 



