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ging designs, no matter how they are arranged (sketches 47 to 52). 
Rarely, however, when capped by a horizontal line they are said to 
represent the small frame erected by adolescent girls,on which to 
hang the miniature baskets and similar articles that they have made 
(sketch 50). Short triple lines are called false legging patterns 
(sketches 53 and 54). All-over combinations of double or triple ver- 
tical and horizontal lines are known as dentalia and embroidery. 
Long treble verticals are aptly termed stripe, scratch, or lines ex- 
tending out. Wide lines divided lengthwise are again known gs 
snakes, while those cut up crosswise Into squares are snake, worm, 
caterpillar, hair ribbon, or white man’s ladder (sketches 63 to 67). 
Checker vertical stripes, aside from being called flies, are snakes, 
beads, and necklaces. Those cut up in other ways are also given 
the same interpretation or are more rarely called rain (sketches 68 
to 76). Any other narrow vertical effect, such as is achieved by a 
vertical row of small triangles or diamonds (sketches 297, 302, pl. 84; 
524, pl. 88), seems to be considered in the same class as the vertical 
line and is given a similar interpretation. 
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It will be seen that all lines, horizontal, diagonal, and vertical, are 
interpreted as certain classes of objects according to their width, 
surface treatment, or combination with other lines, and that on the 
whole the direction of the lines has little to do with their meaning, 
although horizontal lines are not interpreted as rain. Small isolated 
single lines are scratches; grouped lines are leggings and rain. Single 
broad lines elaborately subdivided are most frequently snakes, 
worms, or flies (if checker), although the hair ribbon, ladder, bead, 
and other interpretations are given nearly as often. There is not a 
single interpretation offered that is not suggested by the resemblance 
of the lines to objects noted all the time by the people in their every- 
day life. The variety of terms given merely emphasizes the fact 
that the lines are after all not pictures or reduced realistic art, but 
only suggest objects which in a general way they resemble. 
