1902.] Kroeber, The Arapaho. 35 



by still shorter black marks. There was thus imposed on the ' 

 yellow background of the line an ornament composed of the 

 successive colors black, white, black, red, black, white, black; 

 the red being longest and the black areas shortest. This 

 same arrangement of the four colors is found in other objects 

 ornamented in conventional quill-embroidery. Between these 

 marks on the lines of this robe there were other smaller 

 marks in red and black, and in several places small tufts of 

 red feathers (see Plate xvi). The four colors of this em- 

 broidery, taken collectively, signified the four lives since the 

 beginning of the world (generations or aeons). From the 

 lower end of the robe hung fifty pendants, at the ends of 

 which hung small hoofs, and loops covered with quill-work, 

 this bearing the same design of black, white, black,. red, black, 

 white, black, that was embroidered on the robe. 



The use of these sacred bags and the accompanying cere- 

 monies are also referred to in connection with the tent-decora- 

 tions on pp. 70 et seq. 



