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diametrical band. There are zigzag markings, supposed to repre- 
sent lightning, on the under side of the wing. The tail is spread 
out amply enough to show the different feathers which compose it; 
and at the bases or on its under side corresponding in position with 
like symbols on the wing there appear two zigzag figures. The 
significance of two curved bodies 
hanging from the sky-band, one 
on each side of the tail of this 
‘lu 
Fic. 73.— Conventionalized bird 
form hanging from sky-band ; 
top view. 
Fig. 72.—Conventionalized bird form 
hanging from sky-band; top view 
figure, can not be satisfactorily interpreted, but the bird design shown 
in figure 76 has four tail feathers, a prolongation on the opposite side 
representing a head, and a curved extension comparable with a wing 
in other figures. The so-called 
wing terminates in a triangular 
feather. 
The two designs, figures 76 and 
77, have parts which evidently 
correspond, the latter being one 
of the most beautiful in the col- 
lection. Both represent from the 
side an unknown bird hanging 
from a band extending across the 
middle of the bowls. Although 
the details of organs are more 
carefully depicted in the latter, 
there can hardly be a doubt that 1) 
similar animals were intended in 
both designs. 
It requires some imagination 
to discover a conventionalized Fie. 74.—Lateral view of bird hanging 
5 4 from sky-band. 
bird in figure 78, but we may 
regard it assuch. We have in this figure a good example of a change 
in outline that may be produced by duplication or by representing 
both sides of the body or its organs and appendanges in the same 
