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DECORATION OF FOUR-MILE POTTERY 



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FEATHER DECORATION 



Representations of the feather, often highly conventionalized, are 

 very common iu the designs on ancient Ilopi pottery, and, as the 

 anthor has shown in a previous article, different kinds of feathers 

 have characteristic forms. These designs have been detected thus 

 far in the ruins about the inluit>ited Hopi villages, at Sikyatki, Shu- 

 mopovi, and Kisakobi or old W;Upi. Tliey have not been found, with 

 one exception, in the ruins along the Little Colorado river, though 



Fig. 95. Butterfly deaigu uu fuud bowl fi'uui Fuux'-mUe ruiu uiuinber ITTllU). 



the author has been able to examine much larger collections from this 

 region than from either Shumopovi or Kisakobi. 



One of the feather symbols was sho\\ ii to be the triangle, a form of 

 whicli is still preserved in the decoration of modern ceremonial para- 

 phernalia. Tliis tyjJ*^ of feather design seems to be common in the 

 Little Colorado pottery, but is more difficult to J'ecoguize and is also 

 less common hei-e than it is in the highly instructive symbolism of 

 Tusayan. 



