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Unidentified animal. Oldtown Ruin. (Osborn collection.)
The presence of only two legs in this figure would seem to indicate that a bird was intended, but no bird has a tail like this figure; and the prehistoric potters of the Mimbres certainly knew how to draw a bird much better than this would imply. The exceptional features of this drawing, doubtless intentional, belong neither to flesh, fish, nor fowl, rendering its identification doubtful.
- Author
- Archeology of the lower Mimbres valley, New Mexico
By Jesse Walter Fewkes
Published in 1914
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