. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . istinguish this specimen are likewise highlyinstructive. FEWKEs) FEATHEK SYMBOLISM ON LITTLE COLORADO POTTERY 73 Bird Fiqurks TIic majority of tlie animal figures on specimens from tlie threesoiitluTii luins i-tpresented birds, many of which were liighly con-ventionalizetl. While there were many objects of pottery adornedwitli feathers, this stjie of decoration was not as common or asvaried as at Shumopovi, Sikyatki, Awatobi, or other i-uins on theHopi reservation. The conventional forms of fe
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . istinguish this specimen are likewise highlyinstructive. FEWKEs) FEATHEK SYMBOLISM ON LITTLE COLORADO POTTERY 73 Bird Fiqurks TIic majority of tlie animal figures on specimens from tlie threesoiitluTii luins i-tpresented birds, many of which were liighly con-ventionalizetl. While there were many objects of pottery adornedwitli feathers, this stjie of decoration was not as common or asvaried as at Shumopovi, Sikyatki, Awatobi, or other i-uins on theHopi reservation. The conventional forms of feathers so commonon the decorated pottery of Sikyatki ai-e not found in the designsornamenting the pottery of the Little Colorado ruins, but seem to beconfined to the pueblos in the present Hopi reservation. Thus, nota single specimen of the conventional feather figured on the butter-fly vase shown in plate cxxv of the Seventeenth Annual Report ofthe Bureau of American Ethnology, part 2 (and also plate XL, Smith-sonian Report, 1805), was found on any vessel from Homolobi, Clievlon,or Chaves with bears paw design (number 15T18T The peculiar symbol of the breath feather (Seventeenth ^VnnualReport of the Bureau of American Ethnology-, plates cxxxviii /* andCXLI r, (/) also appears to be limited to objects from ruins near theinhabited Hopi pueblos. On none of the many figures of birds shownin the Little Colorado pottery have we any such complicated symbolsappended to wing or tail. The figures of bilds from Siiuinopoviresemble those from Sikyatki, but no pottery from a Little Coloradoruin is found decorated with the conventional figure of the feather .soconstant in the ancient ruins above mentioned. It will be noticed in the figures of birds from Homolobi and Chev-lon that the posterior end of the bod} has a triangular form whichapparently represents the tail. At one side of this triangular figureare many short parallel lines, evidently intended to represent thetips of the ta
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