BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 5 



PORTABLE SHRINE, INNER CASE 



This is tho case wliifli forms the shrine for the sacred articles. The wliito |>art forming the pocket with 

 dark and red lines running across its width represents the days and nights. Tho part covered with 

 geometrical designs and which forms the llap symbolizes the sky with its clouds, with itsstarry fifcures, 

 such as the Circat Boar, Orion, Pleiades, the Calaxy, etc. One end of the )>ocket has sL\- fastenings and 

 tlie other seven, each representing one of the two great tribal divisions. The case is made of a slender 

 cylindrical rush {Eleocharis i-nterstincla) . 



