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attached two buffalo (or cattle) tails. This ornament is 

 called ka°eibiihi. 



2. Four similarly embroidered pieces of skin considerably 

 smaller (Plate ix, Fig. i). These are attached to the sides 

 of the tent, several feet above the bottom, at the southeast, 

 southwest, northwest, and northeast (the tent always facing 

 east). To the middle of each of these ornaments is attached 

 a buffalo-tail and a pendant consisting of three quill-wrapped 

 strings which have at their ends the small dew-claws of buffalo 

 and a quill- wrapped loop. 



3. A series of pendants, each triple, with dew-claws and 

 loops at the ends (Plate ix, Fig. 3). These resemble the 

 pendants just described, except that instead of strings, wider 

 strips of skin are wound with porcupine-quills. When quills 

 are not to be had, corn-husk or plant-fibres are used. These 

 pendants, called xaxanaahihi, are attached in two vertical 

 rows to the front of the tent, where it is fastened together 

 above the door; also to the edge of the two flaps or ears at 

 the top (which give light and ventilation, but can be closed 

 when it rains). 



These three sets of objects constitute the regular orna- 

 mentation of a tent. 



These tent-ornaments are of three different kinds, the pat- 

 terns in the circular embroidery varying slightly. 



Fig. 9, a, shows one of the three kinds. The design consists 

 of alternating black and yellow concentric circles and of four 

 black-edged white radii. 



Fig. 9, h, shows a second style, which contains fovir colors, 

 wliereas the first contains three. This may be described as 

 similar to the preceding, excepting that the two sectors en- 

 closed by the four radii are solidly red instead of continuing 

 the black and yellow circles that cover the main part of the 

 surface. The specimen figured has teeth around its edge. 

 Such teeth may be either present or absent in any of the 

 three styles. 



The black and yellow concentric rings represent the whirl- 

 wind, or perhaps more exactly the course of Whirlwind- 

 Woman. ^A'hen the earth was first made (and was still small) , 



