Designs on prehistoric Hopi pottery
by Jesse Walter Fewkes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
- Original Publication
- Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919.
- Credits
- Charlene Taylor, Carlo Traverso and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E011: History: America: America
- Subject
- Hopi pottery
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 79063
- Release Date
- July 9, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.DESIGNS ON PREHISTORIC HOPI POTTERY — INTRODUCTION — Chronology of Hopi Pottery Symbols
- 5.THE RUIN, SIKYATKI — Sikyatki Epoch — Human Figures — Quadruped Figures — Reptilian Figures — Winged Figures — DORSAL VIEWS OF BIRDS — LATERAL VIEWS OF BIRDS — FEATHER DESIGNS — Sky-Band — VERTICAL ATTACHMENT TO SKY-BAND — BIRDS ATTACHED LONGITUDINALLY TO SKY-BAND — Spider and Insects — Butterfly and Moth — Geometrical Designs — Rain Clouds — Stars — Sun Emblems — Rectangular Figures Representing Shrines — Symbols Introduced from San Juan River Settlements — Symbols Introduced by the Snake People
- 6.TANOAN EPOCH — Symbols Introduced from the Little Colorado — Symbols Introduced by the Badger and Kachina Clans — Symbols Introduced from Awatobi — Shalako Mana — Symbols of Hano Clans
- 7.CONCLUSION
- 8.FOOTNOTES
- 9.AUTHORITIES CITED
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