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distance, sitting on the ground. The two women then went 

 to the ornament on the southeast side of the tent, and, having 

 fastened a tail to it in the same manner, did the same at the 

 southwest and then at the northwest. Then Cedar-Woman 

 sat down with the others; and the owner of the tent, assisted 

 by her daughter, took down the now completely ornamented 

 tent. 



Ordinarily this would have ended the ceremony; but the 

 same woman had another tent to be ornaniented. Accord- 

 ingly the women re-entered the tent in which they had been, 

 and the owner brought in to them a second canvas. Pre- 

 sumably this was decorated and set up like the first, although 

 without another meal preceding. 



This ends the account of the tribal decoration of the 

 Arapaho. 



Plate X represents two of the gut cases or pouches used to 

 hold porcupine-quills. Generally these pouches are not em- 

 broidered. On the larger one (Fig. 2). the blue and yellow 

 triangles in the beadwork at each end represent rocks. On 

 the other one (Fig. i) red and blue lin,es on the white bead- 

 work represent leeches. 



The Arapaho keep the dry finely pulverized paint, which 

 they use to put on their persons, in small pouches of soft skin. 

 Old people may have plain little sacks without any decora- 

 tion. Generally, however, the pouches are about half cov- 

 ered with beadwork. They take two main forms. One has 

 a fringe hanging from the bottom of the pouch. The other 

 typical form has, in place of the fringe, a pointed triangular 

 flap of skin about as long as the pouch itself. These paint- 

 bags are usually intended to represent other objects. Many 

 represent one half of a saddle-bag. Saddle-bags were made 

 of soft skin, deep, beaded, and with a long fringe. They 

 were double, so that one end hung on each side of the horse. 

 One half of a saddle-bag had much the shape and appearance 

 of many of the paint-pouches. Others of these paint-pouches 

 represent small animals. The pouch itself is the body of the 

 animal, its opening is the mouth, the strings with which the 



