248 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [BTH. ANN. 33 
place. Three tail feathers are here apparent ; the body is square, with 
zigzag white lines, and the head, here twisted into a vertical position, 
has a triangular form. The two crescentic appendages, one on 
the right side, the other on the 
left, represent halves of wings 
which are theoretically supposed 
to have been’ sht longitudinally 
and folded backward?! in order 
that both sides may be shown on 
the same plane; the two bodies 
arising from the concave edges 
of these crescents—one to the left, 
the other to the right of the 
square bod y—represent legs. 
Their unusual form is brought 
about by a twisting of body and 
Vic. 75.—Lateral view of bird hanging tail, by which feathers of the 
from aay ea latter are brought to longitudinal 
position, and one of the legs is twisted to the right side and the other 
io the left. If the two appendages supposed to represent the legs or 
the two parts shaped like crescentlike knives were brought together, 
the two crescents would likewise merge into one, and we would then 
have a highly conventionalized bird with three tail feathers and a 
triangular head, the body being represented by a square design 
crossed diagonally by zigzag fig- 
ures each in its own rectangular 
inclosed field. 
DECORATIONS ON EXTERIORS OF Foop 
BowLs 
The exterior surface of almost 
every bowl from Sikyatki is deco- 
rated with lines or geometrical de- 
signs. Many of these designs may 
represent animals, probably birds 
highly conventionalized or so aber- 
rant that the avian form can be 
recognized only by comparative or 
morphological studies. They are 
confined to one side of the bowl; 16. 76.—Hateral view of bird with ex- 
5 extended wing. 
there appears to be little resem- 
blance and no connection between them and the figure depicted on the 
inside of the same bowls. Although linear in form, one end is some- 
times so crooked or bent at an angle, not curved, as to form a head, 
while the other bears parallel lines, representations of the tail feath- 
ers, terraces, or triangles. 
1See also Seventeenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pl. ct, a, and cxtyvi, d. 
