268 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [ETH. ANN, 33 
From traditions and ceremonial objects now in use we also know 
something of the nature of the objective symbols they introduced into 
Walpi, and we can detect some of these on pottery and other objects 
used in ceremonies at Walpi. Some of these symbols did not come 
directly from the Little Colorado ruins, but went first to Awatobi 
and from there to Walpi? after the destruction of the former pueblo 
in the autumn of the year 1700. The arrival of southern clans at the 
East Mesa with their characteristic symbols occurred approximately 
in the seventeenth century, about 200 years after the date of the 
discovery of Hopi by Tovar. Awatobi received the Rabbit, Tobacco, 
and other clans from this migration from the south between the years 
1632 and 1700, and Walpi received the Patki shortly after or at the 
same time the Hano clans came from the far east. The similarities 
in ancient pottery from the Little Colorado and that belonging to the 
Sikyatki epoch can not be ascribed to anything more profound than 
superficial contact. It is not probable that the ancient pottery of 
Awatobi or that of Kawaika and other Keres pueblos on the Awatobi 
mesa or in the adjacent plain was modified in any considerable degree 
by incoming clans from the south, but survived the Sikyatki epoch 
a century after Sikyatki had been destroyed. 
The advent of the clans from the Little Colorado into the Hopi 
country was too late to seriously affect the classic period of Hopi 
ceramics; it appears also not to have exerted any great influence on 
later times. Extensive excavations made at Homolobi, Chevlon, and 
Chavez Pass have revealed much pottery which gives a good idea of 
the symbolism characteristic of the clans living along this valley, 
which resembles in some respects the classic Hopi pottery of the time 
of Sikyatki, but several of these likenesses date back to a time before 
the union of the Hopi and Little Colorado clans. As a rule the bird 
figures on pottery from Homolobi, Chevlon, Chavez Pass, and other 
representative Little Colorado ruins are more realistic and less con- 
ventionalized and complex than those from Sikyatki. The peculiar 
forms of feathers found so constantly in the latter do not occur in the 
former, nor does the sky-band with its dependent bird figure ever 
occur on Little Colorado ware. We are here dealing with less-devel- 
oped conventionalism, a cruder art, and less specialized symbolism. 
Even if the colors of the pottery did not at once separate them, the 
expert can readily declare whether he is dealing with a bowl from 
Sikyatki or Homolobi. There are, to be sure, likenesses, but well- 
marked differences of local development. The resemblances and dif- 
ferences in the case of bird figures on prehistoric Hopi ware and that 
from the ruins on the Little Colorado can be readily shown by consid- 
ering figures 105, 106, and 107, found at Homolobi and Chevlon, and 
1Pakatecomo in the plain below Walpi was their first Hopi settlement. 
