226 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [BTH. ANN. 38 
Figure 22 depicts a reptile from the head of which project horns 
and two long feathers. Its back bears a row of feathers, but it has 
only two legs. 
The legless creature, figure 23, has two triangular earlike feathers 
rising from the head, and two eyes; a wide-open mouth, in which are 
six long, curved teeth, three in each jaw. The tongue terminates in 
an arrow-shaped figure, recalling a conventional symbol of lightning, 
or the death-dealing power of the serpent. The meaning of the nar- 
row line connecting the upper jaw with the tail is not known. The 
curved shape of the body of the reptile is necessitated by the shape 
of the bowl on which it is drawn. This figure may represent the 
monster feathered serpent of Sikyatki, or a flying reptile, one of the 
most mysterious of the elemental 
gods. It is interesting to note 
that while the effigies of the 
feathered serpent used in Hopi 
(Walpi) and Zuni religious prac- 
tices has a single horn on the 
head, the one here described is 
different from both, for it is pro- 
vided with two appendages re- 
sembling conventionalized feath- 
ers. The Hopi feathered serpent 
was derived from the same source 
as the Zuni, namely, clans which 
originally came to the Little Colo- 
rado from Gila Valley. 
The Hopi (Walpi) figure is in a measure comparable with that 
shown in figure 23—each has two hornlike feathers on the head, and 
the bodies are curved in the same direction—that is, with the cen- 
ter (?) on the right (dextral circuit), the reverse 9f modern Hopi 
pictures, which are placed as if the figures were moving in a sinistral 
circuit.? 
The form shown in figure 24 reminds one of a frog or a turtle. 
The body and feet are turtlelike. As in several pictures of reptiles, 
it is provided with an anterior appendage, evidently the front leg, 
which has characteristic claws. The row of white dots extending 
from the mouth through the neck represents the esophagus or wind- 
pipe. The author is unable to offer any interpretation of the append- 
RATE ENR Cae AR Ov A 
Fic. 23.—Reptile. 
1See Fewkes, The Butterfly in Hopi Myth and Ritual, pp. 576-594. 
? The clay images representing the Tewa plumed serpent on the Winter Solstice altar at 
Hano have rows of feathers inserted along their backs (as in the case of the reptile shown 
in figure 22) as well as rudimentary horns, teeth made of corn kernels, and necklaces of 
the same. (Fewkes, Winter solstice altars at Hano pueblo, pp. 269-270.) A mosaic of 
corn kernels on a clay base (kaetukwi) is known in ceremonies derived from Sikyatki and 
Awatobi. 
