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These objects are particularly, buffalo-robes, buffalo-skin 

 blankets or pillows, and cradles. 



Fig. 12 shows one of twenty lines embroidered in quills 

 across a buffalo-robe, previously mentioned on p. 34, The 

 line represents a buflfalo-path. The four colors — the con- 

 ventional red, yellow, black, and white — represent the four 

 lives (generations or periods) since the beginning of the 

 world, one for each color. 



If one follows the circumference of one of the circular tent- 

 ornaments (as of Fig. 2, Plate ix), excepting the first style, 

 which lacks red, one meets in the course of this circumference 

 the same succession of colors, and the same relative amount 

 or proportional width of each, as on this straight line on the 

 buffalo-robe. In each case the biilk or body of the line is 



Fig 12 Quill embroidered Line. 



yellow; there are red spaces of considerable size; these are 

 bordered by smaller white spaces; and these, finally, are 

 bordered by still narrower black spaces. 



Buffalo-skins, from the head and neck of the animal, were 

 used to hang over the head of the bed. One of these skins 

 seen by the writer was ornamented in the following manner. 



I. The horns were not attached to the skin. Where the 

 eye had been there was sewed one of the small circular tent- 

 ornaments consisting of yellow and black concentric rings. 

 2. The place of the top of the head was covered by a quill- 

 work ornament called the "brain," which was nothing else 

 than one of the large circular tent-ornaments of the style that 

 lacks the black concentric rings. 3. The place of,*'ie ear 

 was covered by a figure embroidered in beads aiiM*. quills. 

 This was trapezoidal, the smaller of the bases being convexly 

 rounded. This ornament is shown in Fig. 13. Most of it is 

 yellow. The middle portion is red; this is bordered by two 

 white stripes, which are edged by black lines. 4. Along the 

 "throat," that is, along one of the sides of the piece of skin, 

 was a fourth ornament. This consisted of two strips of hide 

 extending the length of the skin, parallel to each other at a 



