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By Jesse Walter Fewkes

1973

CONTENTS:

1. Sikyatki and Its Pottery

2. Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery

 

The Ruins of Sikyatki

*Traditional knowledge of the Pueblo

* Nomenclature

*Former inhabitants of Sikyatki

*General Features

*The Acropolis

*The Cemeteries

* Pottery - Characteristics - Mortuary Pottery

Coiled and Indented Ware

Smooth Undecorated Ware

Polished Decorated Ware

*Paleography of the Pottery:

General Features

Human Figures

The human hand

Quadrapeds

Reptiles

Tadpoles

Butterflies or Moths

Dragon-flies

Birds

Vegetal Designs

The Sun

Geometric Figures:

Interpretation of the Figures

Crosses

Terraced figures

The Crook

The germinative Symbol

Broken Lines

Decorations on the exterior of food bowls