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designs are buffalo-tails attached to the top of the tent. 

 The white background denotes ground; its red border, 

 water (evidently streams). On the cover is a design which 

 is continued as a border on the back of the pouch. This 

 is mostly red, and, on account of this color, denotes flame, 

 and therefore, by a series of symbolic equations, matches, 



which are kept in the 

 pouch. White marks 

 upon this border repre- 

 sent ashes. 



Fig. 2, Plate iv, shows 

 a belt-pouch. The white 

 background represents 

 snow. The blue lines 

 enclosing the design are 

 mountains, while lines of 

 green beads at the very 

 edge of the pouch repre- 

 sent trees. On the face 

 of the pouch, two tri- 

 angles are tents; a rec- 

 tangle or stripe between 

 them is a stream of 

 water. On the flap, a 

 blue spot is a rock, 

 and two groups of red 

 squares are two stars. 



Bags about a foot in 

 length, made of dark 

 leather, and nearly cov- 

 ered with beads on the 

 front, are used to hold 

 more modem articles of 



Fig. IS (ilii). Toilet-bag. Height, 38 cm. 



combs, paint-bags, and other 

 toilet use. 



Fig. 23 shows a typical bag of this kind. The large orna- 

 ment that is duplicated on each side of the design represents 

 persons. The narrower ornament in the middle represents 

 two dragon-flies. Both the persons and the dragon-flies 



