FOOD BOWLS WITH FIGURES OF BIRDS AND FEATHERS FROM SIKYATKI]

It may be added that in this figure we have probably the most aberrant

sun-symbol yet recognized, and on that account there is a possibility

that the validity of my identification is more or less doubtful.

The three designs shown in plate CLVIII, _c_, _d_, _e_, evidently

belong in association with sun or star symbols, but it is hardly

legitimate to definitely declare that such an interpretation can be

demonstrated. The modern Tusayan Indians declare that the equal-arm

cross is a symbol of the "Heart of the Sky" god, which, from my

studies of the effigies of this personage on various altars, I have

good reason to identify with the lightning.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 · 第 212 / 295 题