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Some note should be made of the sense of correspondence and con- 
trast of colors which the Dakota, at least, exhibits; the rules which 
he originates and observes forming that which is called artistic taste. 
The Indian’s use of colors corresponds more nearly than that of most 
barbarians with that common in high civilization, except that he per- 
ceives so little distinction between blue and green that but one name 
generally suftices for both colors. It is remarkable that among the 
wilder and plains tribes of Dakotas dead colors in beads are preferred 
and arranged with good effect, and that among these, specially, the use 
of neutral tints is common. Probably both of these results were pro- 
duced from the old and exclusive employment of clays for pigments— 
clays of almost all colors and shades being found in the country over 
which the Dakotas roamed. 
The peculiarities of dress or undress would seem to have first struck 
the people of the eastern hemisphere as well adapted to pictorial repre- 
sentation. Singularly enough to modern ideas, the bracex or trousers 
were to the Romans the symbol of barbarism, whereas now the absence 
of the garments, called even “indispensable,” has the same significance. 
Maj.C. R. Conder (d) gives this good lesson literally ‘¢a propos de bottes :” 
A curious peculiarity of dress also serves to indicate the racial connection. In 
Cappadocia and in Anatolia the monuments represent figures with a boot or shoe 
curled up in front. An Assyrian representation of an Armenian merchant shows the 
same boot. SirC. Wilson first compared it with the boot now worn by the peasantry 
of Asia Minor. Perrot compares it with the cavalry boot worn 
in Syria and with what we calla Turkish slipper. The Ntruscans 
wore a similar shoe called calceus repandus by the Romans. On 
the monuments at Karnak the Hittites are represented wearing 
the same shoe, and although it is not of necessity a mark of race, 
it is still curious that this curly-toed boot was common to the 
various Turanian peoples of Syria, Asia Minor, Armenia, and 
Italy. 
Schooleraft (t) gives the characters on the left hand 
of Fig. 1279 as two Ojibwa war clubs, and the right-hand 
character in the same figure is represented in a Wyom- 
ing petroglyph as a bow. 
Many other weapons distinctive to their draughtsmen are shown in 
this paper. 
It may be well_to insert here Fig. 1280, showing the wommeras and 
clubs of the Australians, taken from Curr (d), not only on account of 
their forms but of the pictorial designs on some of them, which should 
be compared with those of the Moki and other Indian tribes. 
A large number of pictographic figures distinguishing bodies of In- 
dians by different mode of head dress have already been given. Some 
additional detail may be added about the Absaroka who have in this 
regard been imitated by the Hidatsa and Arikara. 
They wear horse hair taken from the tail, attached to the back of their 
heads and allowed to hang down their backs. It is arranged in eight 
or ten strands, each about as thick as a finger and laid parallel with 
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Fig. 1279. Weapons. 
