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A moth with a conventionalized geometric form is represented in 
figure 84 with outstretched wings, a rounded abdomen, and a spotted 
rectangular body recalling designs on 
the upper embroidered margin of mod- 
ern ceremonial blankets. A like figure 
has been elsewhere described by the 
author asia) butterfly. It) oecurs.om the!» 715,847 Mot ox geometrical form. 
stone slab which once formed one side of an Awatobi altar.2 We 
have more complicated forms of butterflies represented in figures 
85-87, the identification of which is even more 
doubtful than the last. Figure 86 reproduces in 
its several parts figure 85, being composed of a 
central design, around which 
are arranged six triangles, 
one of the last being placed 
Fic. 85.—Geometrical above, another below, the <> 
ADSE OE NE main figure, and there are 
two on each side. The design, figure 88, is 
circular, the alternately colored quadrants Fic. 86.—Highly conven- 
forming two hourglass combinations. The — 740d buttery. 
double triangle, shown in figure 84, resembles a butterfly symbol, 
having a close likeness to a figure of this insect found on the Awatobi 
tablet above mentioned. This figure also resembles triangular de- 
signs painted on the walls of mod- 
ern Hopi rooms and in cliff-dwell- 
ings (Cliff Palace). These figures 
present very remote likenesses to 
butterfly symbols and their identi- 
fication as such is difficult. 
Fic. 87.—Geometrical form of moth. 
GEOMETRICAL DEsIGNS 
The geometrical designs on the pottery from Sikyatki. consist of 
two well-recognized groups: (1) Purely ornamental or nonsymbolic 
geometrical figures, and (2) highly conventional 
life forms. Some of the figures of the second group 
may be geometrical representations of birds or other 
animals; but the former are simply embellishments 
used to beautify the objects on which they are! 
painted. Purely decorative designs, not being sym- 
bolic, will not be specially considered, as they do Fic. 88.— Circle 
not come within the scope of the present treatise. An — /B triangles. 
interpretation of the significance of many of the second group of 
geometrical designs is not possible, although they probably represent 
animal forms. 
1The Butterfly in Hopi Myth and Ritual, fig. 61, f. 
2Tbid., p. 586. 
