240 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [BTI. ANN. 33 
all highly conventionalized, in one or two instances, as uv and 0d, the 
relation to feathers can be recognized only by comparative studies. 
The design illustrated in cc, taken from the neck of a vase, repre- 
sents several peculiar feathers of a type not yet described but highly 
characteristic. Comparison of this with that of dd shows the simi- 
larity of the two and suggests that they pertain to the same kind of 
bird. The tails represented in v, aa, and 66 are characteristic; the 
last represents tail feathers hanging from the band later described. 
The series of feathers (possibly tail feathers) shown in several fig- 
ures have rounded tips, and as a rule are of uniform size and without 
ornamentation. In plate 77, a, the three feathers composing the tail 
are painted black and are slightly separated, while those of 6 are 
half black and half plain, the solid area being separated from the 
plain by a diagonal line extending from the proximal to the distal 
extremity. 
The four feathers in ¢ are separated by slight intervals and lightly 
shaded; otherwise they are similar to those in a. The two outside 
feathers of d are much broader than the middle feather, which is 
reduced to a narrow line. In e the three feathers are broader at the 
tips, in which respect they differ from c. 
In the tail shown in /, the feathers are indicated by shallow notches 
from which short parallel lines extend inward. They are without 
superficial markings. Figure g belongs to the notched type repre- 
sented above. 
The four feather symbols shown in the drawing of the bird’s tail 
illustrated in / differ from all others in the shape of their distal ends, 
which are alternately black and plain, and are without superficial 
ornamentation. Evidently this feather design, which is represented 
on a single vessel from Sikyatki, is of a distinet type. 
There is some doubt whether 7 represents a bird’s tail, the head 
and body from which the design was taken being more like those of a 
moth or a butterfly. The meaning of the design in j is also doubtful. 
Figure &% represents a single “breath” feather lke that shown in 
figure 57. 
There is a general resemblance between the tail feathers of the 
bird designed in e and /; the latter represents the tail of a bird, hang- 
ing between two triangles under a star design. 
Figure m represents a bird’s tail with three tail feathers and 
lateral extensions, while in n, where we also have a figure of the tail 
of a bird, each feather is marked by a rectangular pattern. The four 
pairs of parallel lines extending from these feathers may be regarded 
as parts of these structures. 
Figures o to g, while suggesting bird and feather designs, are still 
more or less problematical. In the same category belong the designs 
