lOO Bulletin American Museum of Natural History: [Vol. XVIII, 



Plate XV shows two women's work-bags. These are made 

 of hide on which the hair has been left. The opening extends 

 at the top along the border of beadwork. Both the bags are 

 much worn. The first (Fig. i) is ornamented with designs of 

 tents and a path, represented by green triangles and a dark- 

 blue line at the top. White beading around the edge repre- 

 sents mountains. Green and yellow marks on this represent 



springs. From the 

 second bag (Fig. 2) 

 the hair is almost 

 completely worn off. 

 The white stripe at 

 the top is a trail. 

 The marks on this 

 denote four elk-legs. 

 Just below this stripe 

 are the remnants of 

 a line of quill- work, 

 which was embroi- 

 dered there in order 

 to symbolize quill - 

 embroidery (perhaps 

 because the bag was 

 used to hold sewing- 

 appliances). The bor- 

 ders at the other edges 

 represent paths. 



These ordinary sew- 

 ing-bags must not be 

 confounded with the 

 women's seven sacred 

 bags that have al- 

 ready been men- 

 The sacred bags are quite different in 



Height, 32 cm. 



30)- 



tioned (see p 

 appearance. 



Two bags that are made of skin that has the hair left on it 

 are shown in Figs. 29 and 30. The one shown in Fig. 29 is 

 made of woolly buffalo-skin. It represents, in its entirety, a 



