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It is easy to mention instances of rectangular rain-cloiid symbols 

 represented in the modern ceremonial paraphernalia. We find them 

 carved into tablets on the heads of many dolls and idols. The Humis 

 katcina dancers wear them on their helmets. They are painted on 

 the uprights of altars, woven into baskets, and embroidered on sacred 

 dance kilts. 



This terrace form occurs as a rain-cloud symbol on several bowls 

 from the ancient ruin of Sikyatki. It is also found on mortuary stone 

 slabs at the same ruin. The four sides of the ancient shrine in the 

 Awatobi kiva had rectangular rain-cloud symbols of different color, 

 showing that this form was recognized in this pueblo. The author 

 has elsewhere pointed out its existence in the Iloniolobi ruin, and now 

 the same type is reported from Four-mile ruin. While, as a general 

 thing, this form is the predominating type of rain-cloud symbol used 

 in the katcina celebrations, it is not confined to them, but is also found 

 in the Flute ceremonies and elsewhere. 



The semicircular type of rain-cloud symbol is no less common than 

 the rectangular in the modern decorations, and, while most abundant 

 in ceremonials which occur between the departure of the katcinas and 

 their advent, it is not wholly absent in the masked dances. This 

 form has not yet been found on ancient Hopi pottery — which fact 

 leads to a belief that it is of late introduction. It is, however, very 

 conspicuous in the ceremonials introduced into Tusayan by the Patki 

 or Rain-cloud people, and it is a significant fact that the totemic sig- 

 natures of members of this family have the same form. A ready 

 explanation of the existence of this motive in Walpi would be that 

 the southern clans introduced it, and its occurrence in the Snake 

 ceremony would be interpreted as an example of intrusion. 



The semicircular type of rain-cloud sj'mbols is not considered a 

 development of the rectangular, or vice versa; but it is thought to be 

 a new symlwl of foreign origin, the rectangular being the older in 

 this particular locality. 



The triangular raiu-cloud symbol is less common in modern designs, 

 and is rare or unknown in ruins near the modern towns. The majority 

 of examples of it come from the Little Colorado ruins, but it occurs 

 on some of the idols used in Walpi at the present day. 



A food bowl decorated with triangles arranged in such waj' and with 

 such an association that they may be interpreted as rain-cloud sym- 

 bols was found at Sikyatki, but this interpretation is doubtful. 

 Another bowl from Shumopovi admits of the same interpretation. 



A symbol of the rain cloud among the people of the pueblo — now 

 a ruin — at the mouth of Chevlon fork, was a triangle inclosing a rec- 

 tangle. These symbols were found on a stone slab excavated from 

 that ruin in 1896, and were figured in reports of the work accom- 

 plished in that year (see plate XLVi). A beautiful large food vessel 



