250 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [ETH. ANN. 33 
angular extensions that may represent feathers. Design d resembles 
previous figures identified as feathers and terraces hanging from a 
sky-band. 
The most prominent part of the design e is a crook and parallel 
lines. In 7 are variously combined triangles with appended feathers, 
crooks, and terraced designs, so united as to make up a compound 
decoration of geometric character. 
The geometrical designs in the series, plate 82, a—/, may be inter- 
preted as representing birds in flight or with extended wings. Con- 
sidered in this way, it appears that we have in the figure on each side 
a highly conventionalized wing forming triangles with extensions at 
one angle, ending in terraces, crooks, or other designs. In these 
figures we constantly have a line that may be likened to the sky-band, 
each end generally terminating in a dot to which parallel lines are 
attached. 
Design a has two triangular bodies resembling the letter W, and 
the line terminating in two dots has two crossbars, while in } there 
is a union of designs. Elongated triangles terminate in lines which 
are enlarged into dots. These triangles are modified on one side 
into crooks with smaller triangles. 
From remote resemblances rather than similarity of form, ¢ is 
placed near the preceding. Here a band is enlarged at the end rep- 
resenting the knots with attached parallel lines or feathers. The 
triangular pendants of 6 and the line with terminal dots of @ are 
here represented. On the middle vertical of this figure is a 
trapezoidal design with notched edges. 
The elements of d form a compound in which triangles predomi- 
nate. Two W-shaped designs, ¢ and f, have a form quite unlike a, 6, 
ce, and d. Of these, f is the more complicated, but the similarity of 
the two is apparent. 
Plate 83, a, represents two triangles with serrate margins hanging 
to a horizontal band, one end of which terminates in dots and lines, 
the other with two parallel notched feathers. 
Plate 84, a-c, have the W shape shown in plate 82, e, 7; the ap- 
proach to the conventional bird form with extended wings and tail 
being most marked in a. Design d on plate 84 recalls plate 83, f, 
with modifications that are apparent. 
The above-mentioned geometrical figures from the exteriors of 
Sikyatki food bowls show considerable variety of form but all can 
be reduced to a few elemental designs throughout in which the 
curved line is absent. The rectangular design is always dominant, 
but it will be seen from the following plate that it is not omnipresent, 
especially on the interiors of bowls. 
