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Title: #11, Mural

Filenames: 36-148; 36-148a; mr8; awa-r2-l6-ew-Figure-65a; awa-r2-l6-east-wall

Abstract: Mural from Awatovi

Type: Mural

Site Name: Awatovi

Structure: Room 2

Design: 6

Source: Antelope Mesa

Other Keywords: Mural

Loc Detail: Fig. 65a Test 14

Other Number: NA820.R.2.1/23046d

Orientation: East

Exact Orientation: N 20 W

Context: Kiva

Note: Peabody fig. 65a (East Wall) Although this design is incomplete it is one of the most eleaborate and interesting of the collection. It clearly belongs to Layout Group I, and in structure was perhaps a good deal like the designs in Room 788, Left and Right Walls Design 1 (Fig. 81), in which a large legless figure with outstretched arem occupies the center, with other human figures and intricate details on each side. Here the legless fiure at the extreme right of the surviving fragment was actually in the center of the original wall space. The legless figure is not distinctive although it wears a kilt of "open-work" design similar to several that occur elsewhere. The left-hand figure also is unidentified, but the diving figure with black face, on which appears a bear-paw symbol, the conical cap, the sun shield, and bow and arrow, many be equated with one of the Hopi War Twins.

Multi Wall: No

Multi Wall Note: Persons, Hopi War Twins, 2 Parrots

Human element: Yes

Geometric element: Yes

Natural element: No

Animal element: Yes

Design elements: Human;Geometric;Animal