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pillar, or dentalia (sketch 21). Three or more. horizontal lines or 
layers are usually considered as the snake design (sketches 22, 23, 
and 24), although when lacking the subdivision into blocks they are 
sometimes called scratch, stripe (25), or legging (26), especially the 
latter if ‘‘beads’’ accompany them such as are represented in the 
sketch by the small checks. As soon as we touch upon horizontal 
lines which are combined in any way with other figures, complica- 
tions arise which make generalizing an extremely difficult matter. 
Horizontal lines with rectangles attached here and there (sketch 439) 
are, however, given the same type of interpretation, namely, necklace 
and snake, while those which are not strictly horizontal lines, yet 
which on account of the alternating arrangement of figures in series 
resemble them (sketches 452 and 453), are again found to be clouds, 
notches, caterpillar, and flying geese. It will be seen that the 
horizontal line is named after only a small number of objects which 
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on account of their form and frequent appearance or use are con- 
stantly kept in mind and therefore readily suggest themselves. The 
group includes among natural phenomena low-lying, long clouds; 
among artificial objects, hair ribbons, necklaces, strings of beads, 
nose-rods, embroidery and legging designs, scratches, stripes; and 
among living objects, insects, birds, and reptiles which by their 
shape are particularly suggestive. 
The diagonal line-—Diagonal lines usually appear in series. The 
single diagonal is very rare, because only one would give a very 
“bare” appearance to the basket wall, as the women would say. 
Dots or short vertical lines arranged in all-over, vertical, or diagonal 
order are known as rain (sketches 27 and 28). Plain diagonal lines 
are known as rainbow, stripe, scratch, leaning, lines extending out 
if they are of any length (sketches 29 and 32). Very rarely they 
are known as little ladder when in pairs. This is a name given 
