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oue on eacli side of tlie tail, are backward extensions of the bodies 

 which assume different forms in as maiiy different representations. 



This is a form of bird symbolism unknown in pictography from the 

 Little Colorado ruins, but verj' common, in many variations, at Sik- 

 yatki. Its reduction to bird symbolism maybe i-eadily followed by a 

 comparison with the series given in the report on the field work of 

 1895.« 





Fig. 74. Gambling canes and bird. Design on food bowl from Shumopori innmber 1577.5.5^. 



The food bowl shown in figure 74 is a beautiful specimen of yellow 

 ware, decorated on the interior with two figures, one representing a 

 bird and the other four canes used in a game still played in modern 

 pueblos. The bird figure evidently represents the Heart-of-the-sky 

 god, whose symbol is a star, which is represented on the head of this 

 divinity in designs from Sikyatki figured in the account of the expe- 

 dition of 18115. The wings and tail feathoi's, three in number, are 

 easily recognized. 



The four gaming canes are marked in different ways, and corre- 

 spond with the four cardinal points. Their markings are, however. 



Q Seventeenth Annual Beport of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pt. 2, 1898. 



