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solid colors, borflorcil hy licnw blue bands, and an arrangement in 

 which a centi-al licld is sot off rather prominently from the rest of the 

 design (Fig. 4). This difference is so marked that it is easy to tell 

 a Shoshone parfiechc that has found its way to the Arapaho from par- 



FiG. 36. Coat of a Shaman of the Gold of the Amur River. 



fleches of Arapaho manufacture. In other cases the most character- 

 istic difference consists in the place on the parfleche to which the de- 

 sign is applied. The x\rapaho and the Shoshone never decorate the 

 sides of a bag, only its flaps, while the tribes of Idaho and Montana 

 always decorate the sides. Another peculiarity of Arapaho parfleche- 



