264 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY 
[BTH. ANN. 33 
ments peculiar to the Little Colorado culture center of which Zuni 
is the modern survival; consequently we look in vain for evidence of 
b 
Fie. 102.—Shrine. 
early communication between these 
two centers; possibly Sikyatki fell 
before Zuni attained any promi- 
nence in the Little Colorado area.t 
Symeots IntTropuCcED rrom SAN 
JuAN River SETTLEMENTS 
Although the majority of Hopi 
priests declare that the earliest 
clan to settle Walpi was the Bear, 
coming from the east, by far the 
largest number of early colonists 
are said to belong to the Snake 
people which came from Tokonabi 
and other great settlements on 
tributaries of the San Juan in 
northern Arizona. The route of 
their migration is fairly well known from legendary sources sup- 
ported in late years by some limited excavations that have been made 
in ruins along its course, 
so that we know something 
of the character of the 
Snake pottery and the sym- 
bols, which these early col- 
onists brought to the Bear 
settlement at the base of 
the East Mesa. These are 
not unlike those found 
along the San Juan and its 
tributaries from the Mesa 
Verde to Wukoki near the 
Black Falls on the Little 
Colorado, west of the Hopi 
Mesa. 
This ware is commonly 
either black and white, or 
103. — Conventionalized winged bird with 
shrine, 
red, and can be readily distinguished from that of Sikyatki by the 
wealth of geometrical decorations and the poverty of such animal 
figures as birds, reptiles, and insects. The designs of that early epoch 
appear to be uniform and hardly distinctive from those that occur 
in all parts of the Southwest. 
1There is no published evidence in Zuni legends that Sikyatki received increments 
from that pueblo. 
