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denote yellow water and green water respectively. Each 

 pair of them represents a lake. The white rectangles separat- 

 ing these lake-figures represent bare ground. 



Fig. 6 of Plate xx shows the design on a particularly large 

 parfleche. This design represents the appearance of the 

 country where the maker of the parfleche lived. The tri- 

 angles represent the mountains visible there. The red and yel- 

 low coloring represents the appearance of their surface. These 

 mountains were said not to be rocky, else their representa- 

 tions would have been colored blue. The green on these tri- 

 angles, as well as the unpainted hide, represent grass and 

 vegetation. All the green lines are paths. The red and yel- 

 low rectangles within the wide stripes along the sides are 



sticks, pointers, or pins 



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for fastening together 

 the front of the tent. 

 The quadrilateral of 

 green lines enclosing the 

 design represents the 

 ends of the earth 

 (haneisa" biitaawu). 



On the rawhide bag 

 shown in Fig. 32 a 

 diamond in the centre 

 represents a lake. Two 

 short blue lines at its 

 corners are streams of 

 water flowing into the 

 lake. In the centre of 

 this large diamond is a smaller green one, which represents a 

 frog. Black lines radiating from this green rhombus are the 

 frog's legs. Besides the diamond, the central white area, 

 which itself signifies sandy soil, contains two acute triangles. 

 Short black lines in these, corresponding to those denoting 

 frog-legs in the diamond, represent buffalo- tails attached to 

 the ornaments on the tent. The border surrounding this 

 interior ornamental area consists of a pattern of red and blue 

 triangles. The red triangles are tents; the blue, mountains. 



Fig. 3" (iMi). 

 of bag, 46 cm. 



Design on Rawhide Bag, Width 



