In GD23 the bird has its body seen sideways, with both wings at the back. Though only one wing is visible. Its head form is characteristic and its crooked beak is mostly open. In Tahua we find a closed beak in e.g. Aa6-3 and Aa8-77:
The wing may have a wavy (undulating) form, as in Aa6-3 above and in Ab8-81:
Although the wing has a wavy form, which we recognize as characteristic of some glyphs in GD11, I have not included these glyphs among the GD11 glyphs. Obviously GD23 and GD11 depict the same type of bird ('character') seen from different views, and a wavy wing form on a bird in GD23 does not motivate the same glyph to be included also in GD11. The tail of a GD23 bird is often drawn as with '3 fingers', e.g. in Aa3-26:
That is, though. far from always the case, as is seen not only in the glyphs above but also in e.g. Aab-54:
The lower part of the beak is a site for signs, e.g. in Aa3-17 and Aa5-26:
The 'male member' is also a site for different signs, e.g. in Ab8-77 and Ab7-47:
Although GD54 is characterized by birds with heavily bent heads I have chosen to include Aa1-73 and Aa6-17 also under GD23. These are abnormal GD54 glyphs which probably include signs of GD23:
As GD23 I have also chosen to include these glyphs (Aa5-82, Aa8-36 and Ab6-43):
The head forms and body postures are OK for GD23, but the beaks are wrong. In GD11 we included birds with different kinds of beaks and therefore different kinds of beaks should be acceptable also here in GD23. These three glyphs do not belong to GD42, because the bottom part of such 'birds' is without the features seen here. Moreover, in the GD42 'birds' there is a 'knee' pointing either right or left. No such 'knee' is seen in the three glyphs above. |
