[34] Rabbits are abundant in the Mimbres Valley and several well-drawn pictures of this animal are found on the pottery. [35] This picture resembles that of a wolf depicted on the east wall of the warrior chamber at Walpi. See Amer. Anthrop., n. s., vol. 4, pl. 22. [36] Pictures of the mountain lion by Pueblo artists, at least among the Hopi, have the tail turned over the back. The animal on the Mimbres bowl having no horns is not a horned deer or antelope. [37] The decoration of the bodies of animals with rectangular figures is a common feature in Mimbres pottery, as will be seen in pictures of birds soon to be considered. [38] In addition to the figure with the hunters which is probably a deer, as it has not the antelope marks on the neck. [39] These horns are represented on a plane at right angles to that in which they naturally lie. [40] 17th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 682. [41] This is known as the sinistral circuit and is regarded as beneficial in Hopi ceremonials. [42] 17th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pls. 121_a_, 138_c_. There are one or two examples of Sikyatki pottery where a geometrical design is attached to an animal figure which leads to the belief that possibly the figure attached to the rear of the above may not represent a part of another animal but rather a geometrical design of unknown significance, in this particular recalling old time Hopi ware. [43] This figure may also be identified as a locust. [44] Possibly depicted on a food bowl because grasshoppers were eaten by the prehistoric people of the Mimbres. [45] A picture of a horned toad on a food bowl was recorded from Cook’s Peak by Professor Webster, and there is a picture of what appears to be the same reptile in Mr. Osborn’s collection. It is of course sometimes difficult to positively distinguish representations of frogs, toads, lizards, and Gila monsters, but the anatomical features are often well indicated. [46] The Winter Solstice Ceremony. Amer. Anthrop., 1st ser., vol. II, Nos. 3, 4, pp. 65–87, 101–115. [47] A Theatrical Performance at Walpi. Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 2, pp. 605–629. Native pictures of the Hopi horned snake may be found, pl. 26, 21st Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. [48] The horned serpent cult at Walpi is said to have been introduced from the south. [49] Of all the designs representing the horned snake known to the author this picture from the Mimbres resembles most closely the pictures of this being on pottery from Casas Grandes. It has, however, the single horn found on the clay image in the Hano altar of the Winter Solstice Ceremony, although quite unlike figures on pottery from the Pajarito region. The bodily decorations in the Mimbres bowl are unlike those of the Hopi horned snake.