. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ols was found at Sikyatki, but this interpretation is bowl from Shumopovi admits of the same interpretation. A symbol of the rain cloud among the people of the puelilo—nowa ruin—at the mouth of Chevlon fork, was a triangle inclosing a rec-tangle. These symbols were found on a stone slab excavated fromthat ruin in 1896, and were figured in reports of the work accom-plished in that year (see plate XLVi). A beautiful large food vessel RAIN-CLOUD SYMBt)LS ON POTTERY 157 dug out of
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ols was found at Sikyatki, but this interpretation is bowl from Shumopovi admits of the same interpretation. A symbol of the rain cloud among the people of the puelilo—nowa ruin—at the mouth of Chevlon fork, was a triangle inclosing a rec-tangle. These symbols were found on a stone slab excavated fromthat ruin in 1896, and were figured in reports of the work accom-plished in that year (see plate XLVi). A beautiful large food vessel RAIN-CLOUD SYMBt)LS ON POTTERY 157 dug out of the nortli cemetery at Four-mile ruin, shown in figure 105,is decorated with triangles which are also supposed to be rain-cloudsjmbols. Above them is a semicircular band which is identified as arepresentation of the raiubow. An example of the triangular form of symbol representing the raincloud is found on one of the effigies of the Flute altar, and is figuredin an account of the Walpi Flute observance. Many of the rattlesused in kateina dances have on each of their flattened sides four tri-. FlG. 105. Cloud emblem on food 1 le ruiu (uumber 157352). angles united at one angle, and with parallel lines representing fall-ing rain on the sides opi)osite th(Mr union. These figures have adistant resemblance to feather symbols, as may be seen by comparisonwith some of the bird designs from Chevlou ruin. It will be seen from the foregoing account that there are three typesof rain-cloud symbols in use in the modern Hopi ritual, the semicircle,rectangle, and triangle. In the same way it can be shown that there are at least two types <i Journal of American Folk-Lore, v. 8, n. 27, pi. ii, fig. 1. 158 TWO summers WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS [eth. asn. 22 of sun symbols, and there are other instances which miglit lie men-tioned of two or more symbols representing the same thing. Thisduplication is explained by the composite nature of the tribe, onefamily adding one type, another a second, a
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