Motif 1: Components and Forms
Motif 1 is a zoomorph composed of a head, a body and one or two pairs of appendages. A variety of head, body and appendage styles are found in Motif 1. This motif occurs in three forms: Basic, Reduced and Joined.
The head can be triangular, T-shaped, and triangular or T-shaped overlain with vertical or horizontal parallel lines. The head is usually paint-filled, but occasionally dot-filled.
The body can be rectangular, triangular or hexagonal. The triangular body is usually paint-filled; other shapes can be either unfilled or filled with dots or lines.
Appendages are most often paint-filled right triangles. The hypotenuse can be either plain or trimmed with parallel lines. As shown in the forms below, the appendages appear to serve the function of wings and/or legs. Rarely, appendages appear as stick limbs with digits.
The Basic form displays a head, a body box and two sets of appendages. The head and appendages are usually paint-fill; the body box is not.
The Reduced form displays a head and one set of appendages, between which is a paint-filled body box (indicated by the dashed white lines). [Note: Motif 1 Reduced was formerly composed of Types 1 and 2. Type 2 is now recognized as a Pueblo I motif derived from the Basketmaker III Basic form, and it has been deleted from the Four Corners Region project database. Unfortunately, however, it still appears in reports produced prior to 2020. “Reduced Type 1” is now simply “Reduced”.]
The Joined form displays two heads, one body and two sets of appendages. The two heads share the body and appendages.
