POTTERY FROM OLD SHUMOPOVI 



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Plate LI shows the face of a masked dancer, the treatment of the 

 left eye of which resembles that of this organ in certain Zuiii masks. 



The only figure of a reptile which was found at Shumopovi was 

 drawn on the inside of a food liowl (see figure 69). This figure is so 

 dilferent from any representation of the Plumed Snake that the author 

 has hesitated to refer it to this mythic being. The feathers on the 

 head, if such they be, are two semicircular bodies, and the tongue is 

 represented l>y a line with arrowpoint termination. The eyes are both 

 on one side of the head, and the lines on the head and body are incised, 

 making designs which are higlily suecessfid from a decorative point 

 of view. The bowl is a small one, and is made of the fine yellow ware 

 characteristic of ancient Tusayan ruins. 



An examination of bii'd figures fvnm Shumopovi shows a Tuarked 



Fjg. TH. Mythic bird and game of chauce. Design on food bowl from SliumopoTi i number 1577U). 



difference from those of the ruins on the Little Colorado and a close 

 likeness to those of Sikyatkl and other ruins near the East mesa. 

 Specimens were foimd with the peculiar conventionalized form of the 

 "breath feather" so constant in the collections made in 1805, and there 

 were fine specimens of the sky band and the dependent bird. The 

 design represented on the food bowl shown in figure 70 is very instruc- 

 tive. From a comparison with other figures of Kwataka the author 

 is led to refer this figure to the mythic bird-man god. The head rep- 

 resented in profile has two triangular feathers, and on the throat and 

 breast appear the terraced designs so often found in bird symbols. 

 The feathers of the wing are triangular. There are reasons of a com- 

 parative nature which lead the authoi- to believe that the band on 

 which the bird rests represents the skj' baud, and the ring represents 



