. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . has a diametrical linerepresenting a sky band to which lumgs the conventional figure ofa bird—a design socommon in the best Sikyatki ware. A good exam-ple of this ornamentation is sliown in a food bowl from Shumopovi{see figure 73, page 117). We miss also the star design and thetrifid cross so commonlj associated in Tusayan ware with the birdsymbols. BIRD FIGURES ON LITTLE COLORADO POTTERY 75 Attention is failed to tlie form ot the tail of tlie two liirds in flg;ure28 and to the triangular de-
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . has a diametrical linerepresenting a sky band to which lumgs the conventional figure ofa bird—a design socommon in the best Sikyatki ware. A good exam-ple of this ornamentation is sliown in a food bowl from Shumopovi{see figure 73, page 117). We miss also the star design and thetrifid cross so commonlj associated in Tusayan ware with the birdsymbols. BIRD FIGURES ON LITTLE COLORADO POTTERY 75 Attention is failed to tlie form ot the tail of tlie two liirds in flg;ure28 and to the triangular de-signs called feathers seenin the same figure. Itseems not improbable thatin the conventionalizationof bird figures the designrepresenting a bird maybe reduced to two trian-gles, making an hourglass-shaped figure. Suppose, forinstance, wings and headbe omitted in figure 28, thetail and body would then betwo triangles joined at the nnicesi ^- ~- ^**^ ^^ * * Agui^s. from Homo- apiCtS. lobitnumber 156676). The design on a vase fromHomolobi shown in figure 20 represents four birds, each one of which.
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