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of the abdomen. These wings bear white dots on their posterior 
edges suggesting the markings on certain genera of butterflies.’ 
There arises from the head, which here is circular, a single jointed 
appendage curved at the end, pos- 
sibly the antenna, and an unjointed 
appendage, like a proboscis, in- 
serted into a figure of a flower, 
mounted on a stalk that terminates 
at the other extremity in five 
parallel extensions or roots. A 
row of dots about the periphery 
of the flower suggests petals. The 
figures are accompanied by crosses 
representing stars. 
The second moth design (fig. 80) 
has even a closer resemblance to 
a bird than the last, for it also has’ L 
a single antenna or row of dots  Fi¢.80.—Butterfly with extended proboscis. 
connected by a curved line. It 
likewise has several curved lines resembling a crest of feathers on 
top of the head, and lines recalling the tail of a bird. The head this 
figure bears is a cross suggesting a female butterfly or moth.’ 
The body in figure 81 is crossed 
by five lines converging at one 
angle, imparting to it the appear- 
ance of having been formed by a 
union of several spherical triangles 
on each of which appear rectan- 
gular spaces painted black. A head 
is not differentiated from the body, 
but at the point of union of the 
five lines above mentioned there 
arise two rows of dots which have 
the form of circles, each inclos- 
ing a dot. From analogy these are 
supposed to represent antenne. 
FG. 81.—Highly conventionalized butterfy. The middle of wing-shaped ex- 
tensions recalling butterfly de- 
signs are marked by circular figures in figure 82, but the absence 
in this figure of a head with jointed appendages renders it doubtful 
whether it represents an insect. The shape of the body and its 
1 Except that the head bears a jointed antenna this figure might be identified as a 
bird, the long extension representing the bird's bill. 
? The figures of serpents on the sand mosaic of the Antelope altar at Walpi bear similar 
crosses or diagonals, crossing each other at right angles. The Antelope priests interpret 
this marking as a sign of the female. 
