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are the morning star. Metallic beads in these figures ex- 

 press the lustre of the star. 



The pouch shown in Fig. 21, i, represents a horned toad. 

 The design represents caterpillars (c/. Plate xvii). The white 

 represents snow. 



The pouch shown in Fig. -ai', e, also represents a horned 

 toad. The triangles are mushrooms. 



On the paint-pouch shown in Fig. 21,/, the ground-color is 

 yellow, instead of the usual white, and represents ground. 

 The pattern represents rocks. More accurately, dark blue 

 in this design indicates rocks; red and pink, earth; and green, 

 grass among the rocks. The stripe toward the opening sym- 

 bolizes a narrow range of hills, and dark blue on this stripe is 

 again rock. 



The pouch shown in Fig. 21, g, represents a rat. Two tri- 

 angular pink marks just below the mouth are ears. The rest 

 of the design is very dilapidated, most of the beads having 

 been worn off.' 



The paint-pouch shown in Fig. 21, h, represents a saddle- 

 bag. The ornamental design represents a lizard. Stripes 

 along the sides, toward the opening of the pouch, are worms. 

 Red squares on these stripes are the holes of the worms. The 

 beading at the edge of the opening represents light and dark 

 colored maggots. 



The paint-pouch shown in Fig. 21, i, represents a reddish 

 bivalve mollusk, probably a mussel. 



Representation of an animal by an entire object which 

 bears little visual resemblance to the animal, is not confined 

 to paint-pouches or navel- amulets. An awl-case, made of 

 hide wound with black and white beads, was intended to rep- 

 resent a lizard (Plate xiii, Fig. i). Here, as in other cases, the 

 particular animal represented could not well be recognized 

 even by an Indian; and that this awl-case represents a lizard, 

 and not a snake or fish or rat, is a matter of the individual 

 purpose or interpretation of the maker. Perhaps even a dis- 

 tinct motive or intention for this symbolism was lacking in 



'■ By mistake the design 'shown in the figure below the ears is the one on the 

 opposite side of the pouch; that on the same side as the ears is similar but less 

 dilapidated. 



