270 DESIGNS ON HOPI POTTERY [BTH. ANN. 33 
The ruins Homolobi and Chevlon were probably inhabited well 
into historic times, although there is no archeological evidence that 
artifacts from them were modified by European influences. The 
symbolism on pottery shows that their culture was composite and 
seems to have been the result of acculturation from both south and 
east. Some of the clans, as the Tobacco, that peopled these settle- 
ments joined Awatobi before its overthrow, while others settled at 
Pakatcomo, the ruins of which near Walpi are still visible, and later 
united with the people of the largest village of the East Mesa. So 
far as known. Sikyatki had been destroyed before any considerable 
number of people had entered 
the Hopi country from the 
Little Colorado, the event oc- 
curring comparatively late in 
history. 
The pottery from the Little 
Colorado differs from prehis- 
toric Hopi ware much _ less 
with respect to geometrical 
designs than life forms. The 
break in the encircling line, 
or, as it is called, the life gate, 
which is almost universally 
found on the ancient Hopi 
vases, bowls, dippers, and 
other objects, occurs likewise 
Fig. 105.—Lateral view of bird with double eyes. on pottery from Little Colo- 
rado ruins. Some of the encircling lines from this region have more 
than one break, and in one instance the edges of the break have 
appendages, a rare feature found in both prehistoric Hopi and Little 
Colorado ware.? 
The influence of Keres culture on Zuhi may be shown in several 
ways, thus: A specimen of red ware from a shrine on Thunder 
Mountain, an old Zuni site, is decorated with symbolic feathers 
recalling those on Sikyatki ware ascribed to eastern influence. The 
nonappearance of Keres and Tewa symbols on ancient pottery from 
the Zuni Valley ruins, Heshotauthla and Halonawan, and their 
1As has been pointed out, the designs on ancient Zui ware are closely related to those 
of ruins farther down the Little Colorado, and are not Hopi. Modern Zuni as well as 
modern Hopi pueblos were influenced by Keres and Tewa culture superimposed on the 
preexisting culture, which largely came from the Gila. 
2, No invariable connection was found in the relative position of this break and figures 
of birds or other animals inclosed by the broken band. The gaps in different encircling 
bands on the same bowl are either diametrically opposite each other or separated by a 
quadrant, a variation that would appear to indicate that they were not made use of in a 
determination of the orientation of the vessel while in ceremonial use, as is true of certain 
baskets of modern Navaho. 
