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would be regarded as the sun and the feathers would be identified 
as eagle feathers, while the lines might be considered to represent 
the red rays of the four cardinal points. 
In a bowl found at old Shongo- 
povi, a ruin inhabited at the same epoch 
as Sikyatki, the sun takes the form of a 
sky bird. In this design the ring figure 
is replaced by a bird with wings, tail, 
and a beak, evidently the sun bird, hawk, F'6- 92.—Two circles with figure. 
or eagle (pl. 88, a). 
A theoretical interpretation of plate 88, b, is facilitated by a com- 
parison of it with the design painted on a bowl from the Wat- 
tron collection, now in the Field Colum- 
bian Museum. As this has all the 
parts represented in figure 75, the con- 
clusion would naturally be that the in- 
tention of the artist was to represent a 
bird figure. 
Ring or circle shaped figures are found 
on several bowls from Sikyatki, and in 
one case (fig. 92) we find two circles 
side by side separated by a rectangular 
figure. The meaning of these rings and 
the accompanying design is not known. 
Concentric circles diametrically accompanied with two figures, 
one with a head and two lateral feathers, the other with the 
form of a hash-knife figure, are shown 
in figure 93. 
In figure 94 the appendages of the 
ring design or sun emblem is much 
more complicated than any of the pre- 
ceding. Each of the four quadrants 
has two appendages, a cluster with two 
feathers, and a curved body with a 
sickle-shaped extension, the whole giv- 
ing a swastika-like appearance to the 
design. The interior of the circle is 
likewise complicated, showing a structure difficult to interpret. From 
comparisons with preceding figures this is likewise regarded as a 
sun emblem.* 
Fie. 93.—Sun with feathers. 
Fie. 94.—Sun symbol. 
1In the Hopi ceremony, Powatawu, as performed at Oraibi, a picture representing the 
sun composed of a number of concentric circles of four different colors is made of sand 
on the kiva floor. 
