CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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of heat oi- the element Fire, and the place of Summer, of yrowtli !in<I jiroductivity ; 

 bonce of fostering-, and likewise Feminine. 



The last, ov fonrlh of the earthli/ regions represented in the ordinary slieaf of 

 arrows and in the game, is the Flast, designated the White, and believed to be the 

 sonrce of seeds and the element Earth, and the place of Antnmn, of new years, and 

 hence of creation; therefore Masculine again.' 



These various regions and their numbers and meanings are symbolized oii the 

 .•urows of the Four Quarters by differences in their ribbaudings (fig. 110). 



Those of the North were characterized by a single medial ribbanding around the 

 shaftmeut, sometimes of yellow, but more usually of black, the color of death. 



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Fig. no. 



ARROW SHAKTMENTS OF THE FOUR DIRECTIONS, SHOWINO KIBBANDINO AND CUT COCK FEATHERS. 



Zufii. 



From a sketch by P>ank Hamilton Gushing. 



Those of the West were also singly ribl)anded coextcnsively with the shaftmeut, 

 but there was oftentimes a narrow terminal band at either end of this broad band, 

 siMuetimes of blue or green, but usually of black. 



'1 hose of the South were characterized by two bands midway between the two 

 ends and the middle, sometimes of red, but usually of black. 



Those of the East were characterized by either two narrow bands at either end 

 leaving the whole medial space of the shaftment white, or more often by a single 

 band at the upper end of the shaftment, sometimes composed of two narrow black 

 fillets inclosing white, but usually merely black and not doubles. 



'See Outlines of Zuni Creation Myths, Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, p. 369. 



