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form appears in normal position in the under portion of e, only that here a slight 

 wave occurs in the comparatively long neck. The point of this figure (e} is crowned 

 by a trefoil, under which, in the figure on the right-hand side, is a cock type closely 

 allied to the under one, except that here the beaks are more extended in a down 

 ward direction without tapering. On the left-hand side is a case of asymmetry, 

 since there, instead of thick lines like those in the figure on the right, occur sim 

 ple lines of the same form, but inverted. There are five figures exactly alike 

 (/). These form, above and below, a narrow tapering structure. In this 

 picture the negative parts show the type of the confronting tripartite cocks in 

 the fish style, which is so hard to distinguish from the conventionalized fishes 

 themselves. 



Fig. 4, Plate xxvi, represents a painting on the upper part of a pair of 

 leggings made of elk-skin. The ornamental organization is executed here by two 

 opposite double spirals near the upper edge, separated from each other by a lon 

 gitudinal wedge, the fish-tail end of which joins a pair of facing spirals. Over the 

 left double spiral is a long-stretched cock (a) in green, with a tail like that of a 

 pheasant. The lozenge shape of the body and the engrailed line forming its edge 

 are most remarkable. Strange and unique in its kind is the fact that this horizon 

 tally placed cock (a) occurs in combatant attitude with the vertically placed cock 

 (&amp;lt;$), whose body likewise is shaped like a lozenge ; the latter, however, does not run 

 out into a tail, but into another inverted cock-head turned to the left, which, in its 

 turn, is represented in combatant position with an inverted cock (e), whose body, 

 also lozenge-shaped, runs off above into a fish-tail. We are again surprised in this 

 design to note, on the corresponding side, an arrangement of types bearing the 

 same relation to each other as a to b, but the two cocks d and e are placed on a 

 horizontal plane. The cock d has likewise the tail of a pheasant. The line 

 forming the back, however, is an uninterrupted curve, as the proper form of the 

 cock s body is in general retained here in a much higher degree than in a and b. 

 d a.n&amp;lt;\ c have an engrailed line consisting of three arcs, marked more strongly in 

 e than in d. Over d and e are two combatant cocks of more distinct forms than the 

 two birds over a. The fish-like cock is represented in the designs f and ;&amp;gt;. 

 Each of these holds two fishes in its beak, a conventionalized one (//, i), and 

 a rather realistic one (j, k) with the eyes marked. Worthy of note is the 

 asymmetry between the two space-filling conventionalized fishes / and ;;/ on the 

 one side, and the fishes u and o on the other. It is hardly necessary to call 

 special attention to the cock-heads united in the figure p, nor to those on the 

 adjoining leaf-forms below. 



The embroidery in Fig. 5, Plate xxvi, is worked on the lower part of the 

 back of a garment. The same design is found on both sides. In the middle is 

 the trunk of a tree with an ornamental top, and sending off three main boughs to 

 both sides. Two musk-deer with heads turned so that they face each other are 

 embroidered at the place where the lowest pair of boughs branch off. The tips 

 of these boughs are adorned with trifoliates ; on their sides are two roes which 



