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dark blue and white. They represent fish. The similarly 

 barred stripe around the ankle also represents a fish (or the 

 markings on a fish). Small figures, some red, some blue, con- 

 sisting of a pair of triangles joined at the vertices, represent 

 butterflies. The double tongue over the instep represents 

 a horned toad (i. e., its markings). 



On the moccasin shown in Fig. 5 of this plate the zigzag 

 band across the front represents lightning. 



What may be considered a typical solidly-beaded moccasin 

 is shown in Plate iv. The white represents snow. The green, 

 both in the triangular areas and in the stripe around the 

 ankle, represents grass-covered earth. The blue and yellow 

 figures consisting of three triangles represent the heart and 

 lungs. The white stripe bisected by two shorter ones, inside 

 the green triangular areas, is a dragon-fly. Groups of three 

 small light-blue squares near the instep were described as 

 halves of stars (five squares in quincunx sometimes represent 

 a star). At the heel, four small green rectangles (invisible in 

 the illustration) represent caterpillars. The design on this 

 moccasin was embroidered as it was previously seen in a 

 dream. 



Fig. 6 shows two views of one of the leggings worti by a 

 little girl. The moccasin is attached to the legging. The 

 skin of which the legging is made is painted yellow wherever 

 it is not covered by beads, excepting in the white-bordered 

 stripe running alongside the shin of the leg; in this the skin 

 is painted red. The designs worked on the legging were 

 seen in a dream or vision. This pair of leggings was con- 

 sidered exceptionall}- handsome by the Arapaho; it always 

 attracted attention at once. The design on each side of the 

 legging, consisting of two connected triangles, represents a 

 mountain with the morning star above it. (The figure of the 

 mountain is symmetrically duplicated, which gives the star, 

 represented by a cross, the appearance of being between 

 two mountains, the upper one inverted.) At the back of 

 the legging the rhombus represents the morning star when it 

 is rising; the two crosses are the morning star when it is high 

 up above the horizon. The contact of the crosses with the 



