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consisting of two triangles touching at their vertices, repre- 

 sent rough places in the path: those that are red denote 

 prominences; those that are blue signify holes. Crosses 

 are the morning star. A horizontal stripe at the heel repre- 

 sents a caterpillar. 



On the moccasin shown in Fig. 2 of Plate 11 the white 

 groundwork of beads represents sand. The parallel angles 

 on the instep of the moccasin are tents. Small rhomboidal 

 marks are stars. At the toe a wide cross is the morning star. 

 At the sides claw-shaped figures represent hakixta" (buffalo- 

 hoofs). Between each pair of these figures is a yellow and 

 red rectangle, which represents an eye. Small squares on 

 the transverse stripe at the instep, and at the heel, repre- 

 sent tracks. 



On the moccasin shown in Fig. 3 of Plate 11 the white 

 background represents snow. The dark-blue triangles with 

 squares in them are tents and their doors. The two large, 

 greenish-blue triangular areas on the instep represent lakes. 

 Between them a diamond represents the navel (or perhaps a 

 child's navel-amulet). Triangles at each end of this diamond 

 are arrow-points. A greenish-blue stripe around the ankle 

 represents both smoke and water. Small squares at the in- 

 step and at the heel represent tracks. 



The moccasin illustrated in Fig. 4 of Plate 11 is one of the 

 few solidly-beaded Arapaho moccasins of which the ground 

 color is not white. It is a rich blue, and the figures upon it 

 are chiefly pink and red. The blue represents the sky. The 

 large parallelograms are clouds with white edges, piled up 

 one on the other. Red crosses or diamonds in these are 

 stars. Larger, white-edged rhombi in the blue are also stars. 

 A triangle at the toe is a tent. In the middle of the front, a 

 red figure represents a crayfish or scorpion. 



Fig. s of Plate 11 shows another solidly-beaded moccasin. 

 Green squares, enclosing a smaller square that is white and 

 red, are life-symbols (hiiteni). Small red triangles in contact 

 with the life-symbols are tents. Small black squares in 

 several places on the white ground are rabbit- tracks in snow. 

 The triangular figures represent seats (gidku'utaana"). The 



