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feather and those previously considered is that the diagonal line 
marking the tip is drawn at a greater angle. 
The six feathers shown in / resemble the last, but the terminal por- 
tions of three are spotted instead of solid black. Like some of the 
others described, this form tapers slightly from its distal end to its 
base, 
In 7 the feathers are likewise pointed at their tips, but are of 
almost uniform breadth. Each is intersected by a series of triangles 
and parallel lines, and suspended from the latter, one in each feather, 
are several vertical lines, each with terminal dots. 
The symbol shown in 7 is not unlike that already illustrated, but 
it has in addition to the structure enumerated a lateral hornlike 
appendage common in the tails of birds (see pl. 90, 7, ¢/). 
The form of feather design shown in & is somewhat different from 
those already considered. The distal end is broad and pointed; the 
proximal narrows almost to a point. The left half of the body of 
the feather is black; the remainder, including the point, is plain. 
The design 7 has the same general form as /, but its tip is marked 
in a different manner. 
The double-pointed symbol represented in m was evidently de- 
signed as a feather (possibly two feathers), with parallel sides, and 
pointed tips painted black. The symbol n is similar to d in outline, 
but it lacks the terminal slit and black bands. There project, how- 
ever, from the angles formed by the tips of the feathers three ver- 
tical lines, each with an arrow point at the extremity and two short. 
crosslines, as in one of the bird designs previously described (fig. 
35). The present design represents wing feathers; the complete 
bird figure (fig. 35), where they also occur, represents a thunderbird. 
The three tail feathers shown in o are in no respect peculiar. The 
two-pointed appendages seen above are an almost constant feature 
of the drawings of birds as seen from the back. The feathers rep- 
resented in p are unlike others in their mode of attachment and in 
the ornamentation at the base. 
Thus far we have considered a type of feathers with pointed tips 
(pl. 76, a—p) imparting to the whole tail a serrate appearance. While 
in the next figure, ¢, the tail feathers still terminate in points, a black 
band connecting their extremities is prolonged at each side, recalling 
the tail of certain swallows. 
Feathers are often represented on Sikyatki pottery as elsewhere in 
the Southwest by parallel straight lines. The feathers represented 
in 7 are exceptional in that their length varies considerably, the 
median feather here being the longest. 
While undoubtedly the series of designs shown in s to 6d, inclusive, 
in each instance representing the feathers in the tail of a bird, are 
