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symmetrically duplicated, in spite of the quasi-map-like nature 

 of the design. 



Another of these ration-ticket pouches is that shown in 

 Figs. 3 and 4, Plate xiv. On the front are represented flint 

 arrow-points. On the other side (back and flap) the stripes 

 represent arrow-shafts, the colored portions being the prop- 

 erty-marks with which arrow-shafts are painted. Arrows are 

 the means of securing game ; game is used as food; so is the 

 beef that is issued by the government, and this is obtained 

 by means of the ration-card kept in the pouch. Such is the 

 reason for representing arrows by the ornament on this little 

 bag. Associations of this sort (arrows, game, meat, beef, 

 ration-card) are not uncommon among the Arapaho, espe- 

 cially among the speculative and the old. They remind one 

 strikingly of the symbolic identification, on account of anal- 

 ogies in single respects, that is so prominent in the religion of 

 the Indians of the Southwest, and which has been treated of 

 extensively by Gushing among the Zufii, and lately, in more 

 detail, by Lumholtz among the Huichols. 



Another pouch is shown in Fig. 5, Plate xi v. The squares 

 along the sides are bee-holes. The figure at the bottom is 

 a bee. The red beads at the lower edge of the pouch are 

 bees. The white edges on the sides are trails, the red spots 

 denoting holes. 



Fig. 6, Plate xiv, shows another pouch in which ration- 

 cards were kept. The black beads covering the lower half of 

 the bag represent coffee, which is obtained at the ration-issue. 

 The light-blue bands at the sides, on account of their color, 

 represent the sky. The ornaments upon them are mountains. 

 The single lines of dark-blue beads along the edges represent 

 wolves. 



On the tasteful pouch shown in Fig. 7, Plate xiv, the red 

 diamond in the centre of the design represents a person. The 

 four forked ornaments surrounding it are buffalo hoofs or 

 tracks. 



In Fig. 8 of Plate xiv the main ornament is a tent. The rec- 

 tangle above the apex of the triangle represents the spreading 

 upper flaps or ears of the tent, and the two lateral hand-shaped 



