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beaded. This pattern represents the rough surface of buf- 

 falo-intestine. The beads in this pattern are green, blue, and 

 pink; these colors represent respectively grass, sky, and 

 ground. 



The moccasin shown in Fig. 5, f, is completely beaded. 

 The border and stripe exist in the application of the beads, 

 and show in the coloring, being white. On these white areas 

 are represented pipes. The two large triangular areas are red 

 and green respectively. Together they represent buffalo- 

 horns. The red and green also denote respectively bare 

 ground (soil) and earth covered with grass ; it is on these that 

 the buffalo walk and trample. At the heel of the moccasin 

 (not shown in the figure) is a small square, which represents 

 a track. At the instep there is a tongue (also not illustrated) , 

 much like the tongue of a shoe, except that when the moccasin 

 is worn, the tongue falls over the front of the foot (a similar 

 tongue is seen in Plateiii, Fig. 4). This tongue is beaded in 

 light blue with dark-blue spots, is divided or forked, and has 

 small tin cylinders (rattles) attached to its ends. It repre- 

 sents a rattlesnake. The beading is the spotted skin; the 

 two parts of the tongue, the forked tongue of the snake ; and 

 the tin cylinders, its rattle. 



Plate II shows several moccasins that are entirely covered 

 with beads. All of these except that shown in Fig. i, the 

 pattern of which is unusual, are actually embroidered with 

 the border and the longitudinal stripe, though sometimes, as 

 in Figs. 2 and 5, these are not visible in the design because 

 the beads are all of the same color. 



In Fig. I of Plate 11 the rows of triangles on the front of 

 the moccasins represent sharp rocks. Two rows of alternat- 

 ing red and blue squares are hills. Three red squares adja- 

 cent to each of these rows represent persons sitting on the 

 hills. A light-blue line traversing the middle of the front 

 of the moccasin is a path; small squares adjacent to it are 

 rocks. Two small detached bars, one at each side of the 

 entire design that has thus far been described, represent per- 

 sons standing. Along the edge of the sole, flat triangles with 

 small upright marks at each end, are hills and pines. Marks 



