SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. CL FIGURES OF BIRDS AND FEATHERS FROM SIKYATKI] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. CLI FIGURES OF BIRDS AND FEATHERS FROM SIKYATKI] In plate CLII, _a_, is shown a compound figure of doubtful significance, made up of a series of crescents, triangles, and spirals, which, in _c_, are more compactly joined together, and accompanied by three parallel lines crossing three other lines. The curved figure shown in _b_ represents three feathers; a large one on each side, inclosing a medially smaller member. In _d_ is shown the spiral bird form with appended feathers, triangles, and terraced figures. Figure _f_ of this plate is decorated with a design which bears many resemblances to a flower, the peripheral appendages resembling bracts of a sunflower. A somewhat similar design is painted on the side of the helmets of some _katcina_ dancers, where the bracts or petals are colored in sequence, with the pigments corresponding to the six directions--north, west, south, east, above, and below. In the decoration on the ancient Sikyatki bowl we find seven peripheral bracts, one of which is speckled. The six groups of stamens(?) are represented between the triangular bracts. The designs shown in plates CLIII to CLV, inclusive, still preserve the spiral form with attached feathers, some of them being greatly conventionalized or differentiated. In the first of these plates (figure _b_) is represented a bird form with triangular head with four feathers arranged in fan shape. These feathers are different from any which I have been able to find attached to the bodies of birds, and are thus identified from morphological rather than from other reasons.