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lateral figures pipes. On the other side (Fig. 2) is a repre- 

 sentation of a turtle and of several pipes. The two narrow 

 stripes extending to the mouth of the pouch are caterpillars. 



The bag shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of Plate xii represents both 

 a saddle-bag and a prairie-dog. On one side (Fig. 3), four 

 right-angled triangles represent mountain-peaks. Small white 

 patches on these represent snow. Dark figures at the points 

 of these triangles are eagles on the mountains. The figure 

 between the mountains represents the crossing of two paths. 

 On the other side (Fig. 4), the diamond in the middle repre- 

 sents a turtle. The two three-pronged figures are turtle- 

 claws. Small white spots on these are turtle-eggs. 



It will be noticed that identical white spots mean on differ- 

 ent sides of the bag respectively snow-patches and turtle-eggs. 

 What signification they have depends in each case on the 

 symbolic context. Similarly a three-pronged figure like that 

 on this bag often signifies the bear's foot, but here, when 

 adjacent to a ttirtle-symbol, a turtle's foot. Such represen- 

 tation of different objects by the same symbol — or such 

 different interpretation of the same figure, according as one 

 may wish to state it — is constantly found in the decorative 

 art of this tribe. ' 



The pouch shown in Figs. 5 and 6, Plate xii, again repre- 

 sents a lizard. The large ornament about the middle of the 

 bag (Fig. s) represents a butterfly. The two triangles are 

 its wings, and the rhomboidal figure of beadwork projecting 

 on the leather surface is its body. On the flap is represented 

 the centipede. The rows of small squares are its tracks. On 

 the other side (Fig. 6) there is the butterfly again. On the 

 flap is a dragon-fly, or perhaps two. The detached, some- 

 what triangular figures, at the sides of the dragon-fly, are its 

 wings. 



The pouch shown in Fig. 2 1 , a, represents a saddle-bag. 

 The design is a tent. The conventional stripe towards the 

 opening, only part of which is shown in the illustration, is a 

 snake. 



In the paint-pouch shown in Fig. 21,6, each of the triangles 

 with the two lines at its ends represents a tent. The spacei 



