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like those set around sand pictures of the Snake and Antelope 
altars of the Snake ceremonies at Walpi.t 
It is suggest- 
ed that the fig- 
ure below the 
mountain sheep 
(see fig. 18) 
and the circles 
with dots ac- 
companying 
the butterfly 
and bird de- 
signs may also 
represent 
shrines. At- 
tention is also 
called to the 
fact that each 
of the six ani- 
mal figures of 
the elaborate 
butterfly vase 
(pl. 90, ¢) is ac- 
companied by a 
rectangular de- 
sign represent- 
ing a shrine in 
which feathers 
Fic. 100.—Horned snake with conventionalized shrine. are visible. 
The general forms of these shrines are shown in figures 101 
and 102. The one shown in figure 103 is especially instructive 
from its association with a highly conventionalized 
animal. 
The Sikyatki epoch of Hopi ceramics is more 
a 
closely allied to early Keresan? than to ancient 
Tanoan, and has many likenesses to modern Keresan 
pottery. In fact, none of the distinctive figures have 
yet been found on true Tanoan ware in any great 
numbers. There appear also no evidences of incre- 
1The author has a drawing of the Snake altar at Michongnovi by 
an Indian, in which these crooks are not represented vertically but 
horizontally, a position illustrating a common method of drawing 
among primitive people who often represent vertical objects on a 
horizontal plane. An illustration of this is seen in pictures of a medicine bowl where 
the terraces on the rim normally vertical are drawn horizontally. 
2JIn using this term the author refers to an extreme area in one corner of which still 
Survive pueblos, the inhabitants of which speak Keres. 
b 
Fic. 101.—-Shrine. 
