FEWKES] THE RUIN, SIKYATKI 2338 
The design shown in figure 88 is regarded as a highly convention- 
alized bird symbol, each wing being represented by a curved pendant, 
to the extremities of which feathers 
are attached. The body is rectangu- 
lar and decorated with a median 
horizontal white band continued 
above and below into black lateral 
triangles which possibly may rep- 
resent feathers, and flanked triangu- 
lar white areas on each side. 
Tn figure 39 the 
design has been 
so greatly con- 
ventionalized 
that almost all 
resemblance to a bird has been lost. The wings 
are represented by simple terraces, the body by a 
rectangular figure, and the head terminates in 
three points. It is possible that the limit of bird 
conventionalization has been reached in this var?- 
ant, and the difficulty of identification of organs is 
correspondingly great. 
The design shown in figure 40 would perhaps 
more logically fall within the series of circular 
Fic.39.—Conventional figures, identified as sun em- 
Senko ose pie blems, elsewhere considered, ex- 
cept for the extensions representing wings and tail. 
This is mentioned as one of the instances where 
organs of birds are combined with a circle to repre- 
! sent the Sun god. 
‘ Figure 41 resembles 
figure 40 in some essential 
points and may also be Fie. 40.—Conven- 
considered in connection — {{0nt! Bsure of a 
with sun emblems. On 
account of the presence oi feathers it is 
here included among the bird designs. 
Figure 42 exhibits an exceptional bird 
Pic. 41,—Conventional figure form as viewed from the rear.t Wings, 
ems Eee, body, tail, and possibly the head,:are rec- 
Fig. 38.—Conventional figure of a bird. 
ognized after some study. 
LATERAL VIEWS OF BIRDS 
Drawings representing side views of birds are usually highly con- 
ventionalized, often taking the forms of simple geometric figures, 
1 See Seventeenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 2, pl. cxt1, a. A circle is here drawn 
on each side of the bird. 
