Exact identifications of these pictures with the animals by which the Hopi are or were surrounded, is, of course, impossible, for they are not realistic representations, but symbolic figures of mythic beings unknown save to the imagination of the primitive mythologist.
Fig. 267—Unknown reptile
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ORNAMENTED LADLES FROM SIKYATKI
Fig. 268—Unknown reptile