954 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [ETH. ANN. 33 
appendages resembling feathers indicate, so far as they go, that 
this design represents some bird. ‘ 
It will be noted that in one of the above-mentioned figures, identi- 
fied as a moth, flowers are indicated by dotted circles, while in an- 
other similar circle, figures, also surrounded with dots, are repre- 
sented on the wings. One pair 
of wings is represented in the last- 
mentioned figure, but a second 
pair placed behind the larger may 
have been confounded with the 
tail feathers. In one of these fig- 
ures from Sikyatki there is a row 
of dots around the margin of the 
wings—a common but not univer- 
sal feature in modern pictures of 
butterfly figures. None. of the 
butterfly figures have representa- 
tions of legs, which is not strange 
Rees _.| considering how inconspicuous 
Fic. 82.—Moth. these appendages are among these 
insects. 
A most striking figure of a butterfly is represented by six drawings 
on the so-called “butterfly vase” (fig. 83). These, like the above- 
mentioned, resemble birds, but they all have antenne, which identify 
them as insects. These six figures (pl. 90) are supposed to be con- 
nected with the six cardinal points which in modern Hopi belief have 
sex—the butterfly corresponding to the north, male; to the west, 
female; to the south, male; to the 
east, female; to the above, male; 
and to the below, female. The 
wings of all these insects are rep- 
resented as extended, the anterior 
pair extending far beyond the 
posterior, while both have a uni- 
form color and are without mar- 
ginal dots. The appendages to 
the head are two curved rows of 
dots representing antenne, and 
two parallel lines are the mouth 
parts or possibly the proboscis. 
The markings on the bodies and 
the terminal parallel lines are like 
tail feathers of birds. The heads of three figures, instead of having 
diagonal lines, are covered with a crosshatching, 6, 6, 6, and are 
supposed to represent the males, as the former, a, a, a, are females.? 
Fie. 83.—Moth. 
1 Rain, lightning, animals, plants, sky, and earth, in the modern Hopi conception, are 
supposed to have sex. 
