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are rivers. The unpainted portion of the pattern represents 

 ground. On the cover, red triangles represent mountains. 



Fig. 4, Plate xxi, shows another square medicine-bag made 

 of browned rawhide. All the equilateral triangles are tents; 

 the right-angled ones, mountains. The lines trisecting the 

 design are bufifalo-paths. The whole pattern represents the 

 sky. This bag has a fringe along each side, which is not gen- 

 erally found on any objects made of rawhide except cylin- 

 drical medicine-cases. 



These last three bags are all colored only with red, yellow, 

 and dark green. In pattern they agree closely, without 

 being identical or copied one from another. 



A food-bag or bellows-shaped pouch, opening at the end, 

 is shown in Fig. 3, Plate xxi. The familiar three-toothed 

 triangular figures are bear-claws. The wide stripes are all 

 mountain-ranges. The small blue and yellow bars contained 

 in these stripes are dark and yellow rocks on the mountains. 



A rawhide bag is shown in Fig. i of Plate xxii and Fig. 

 35. The triangles and segments of circles represent hills. 

 The two large triangles, yellow in the centre, are tents. The 

 rhombus between them represents the interior of a tent. The 

 green, which is outside, represents the beds along the walls 

 of the tent. The red is the ground. The blue is ashes around 

 the fireplace. The yellow in the centre is the fire in the 

 middle of the tent. The red, yellow, and green rectangle 

 between this rhombus and the opening of the bag (Fig. 35) 

 represents a parfleche. The yellow and blue squares at the 

 corners of the bag represent bags of soft hide, used to hold 

 clothing, etc. 



On the back of the bag (Fig. 35) the entire rectangular 

 design represents a shelter or brush-hut of branches, the 

 parallel stripes being sun-rays falling through interstices in 

 the foliage. The small white rectangle, containing a red 

 equilateral triangle and enclosed by green lines, is the. body, 

 the red triangle being the heart. 



On the triangular flap of hide serving as cover, the four low 

 segments of circles, colored yellow and green, represent hills. 

 The rest of the design, which can be described as a red and 



