The haś glyphs are characterized by a bent 'branch', marked with 'feathers' on the outside:
The bent 'branch' represents the path of a luminary, beginning at bottom and moving up and clockwise, ending at the tip. The 'feathers' are used to indicate calendrical periods. In the example above (Ab4-53) the 10 'feathers' possibly indicate how the 'summer year' is divided into 10 periods (with 18 days in each period). In another example, below, from the Mamari moon calendar, the path of waxing moon presumably is divided into 15 periods:
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