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facts that its fruit is edible and its sap utilized as a mouth wash and 
as a cure for “yaws,” may perhaps account for the frequency of the 
pattern. Charles Dance (Da, 304-305) gives the same interpretation 
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to a very similar figure. On the other hand, certain of the Carib 
recognize in this pattern the famous mythical snake which originally 
supphed them with their vegetable charms (WER, vr, sec. 235). 
Another plant represented on these pegalls is blade or savanna grass 
waving in the wind (fig. 169 A). 
