232 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [BTH. ANN. 33 
are conspicuous, is a prominent feature. The form of the tail and 
wing feathers of this bird is practically the same as the last, except 
that they are more elaborately drawn. Each wing has two feathers, 
and three others form the tail. The arrow points projecting from 
beneath the extremities of the 
wing feathers are possibly light- 
ning symbols. Each is crossed by 
two bars in the same manner as the 
tongue projecting from the mouth 
of the serpent shown in figure 
23, which is also a lghtning 
symbol. 
The design illustrated in figure 
36 represents a bird, as seen from 
the back, with outstretched wings, 
recalling the lateral view of a bird 
shown in figure 54 in having 
smaller bird figures attached to 
the tips of the wings. The place 
of attachment of the wings to the 
body is embellished with crosshatched lines and stepped figures, 
recalling the rain-cloud symbols. The head is rectangular, destitute 
of a beak, inclosing two square figures with short parallel lines, rep- 
resenting falling rain, projecting from the upper side. On one side 
of the head is a semicircular de- 
sign. The tail has three feath- 
ers, the two on the sides being 
broader than the one in the mid- 
dle. These feathers are without 
markings, but the end of the 
body from which they depend 
is ornamented with stepped fig- 
ures surmounted by two hori- 
zontal parallel lines and two tri- 
angles. In the background, at 
each side of the body, there are 
dotted circles, suggesting flow- 
ers, a feature often accompany- 
Vic. 86.—Bird figure. 
a 
ing designs representing butter- Fig. 37.—Highly conventionalized figure of 
flies or moths bird from dorsal side. 
In figure 37 is shown a highly conventionalized dorsal view of a 
bird, with sickle-formed wings slightly extended, seven pointed tail 
feathers with lateral appendages. and a rectangular head with three 
semicircular rain-cloud figures. The globular enlargement at the base 
of the wings in one instance is accompanied by a fan-shaped figure. 
