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tached to it two of these figures, is regarded as representing 

 two tents. Inside this diamond, two red lines represent the 

 crossing of paths ; the yellow represents the sun ; and the 

 green, the sky. Both at the top and at the bottom of the front 

 surface of the bag is a red rectangle containing a blue one, 

 which in turn encloses a yellow one. This entire rectangular 

 figure represents a path. At each end of this figure is a blue 

 right-angled triangle, representing, on account of its color, 

 grass or vegetation. A similar yellow triangle adjacent to 

 each of these represents wood or sticks. The red lines sep- 

 arating these blue and yellow triangles represent trails. The 

 blue lines enclosing the entire design on the front of the bag 

 are also trails. The white ground-color of the bag represents 

 sand. 



It will be noted that on this bag green denotes the sky ; and 

 blue, grass. Such identification of green and blue occurs in 

 other instances, but is not usual when both colors are present 

 on the same object. Ordinarily the same word is used for 

 " green " and " blue " in Arapaho. 



On the back of the bag is a design in blue. It consists of 

 a rectangle divided into four parts by three lines parallel to 

 the short sides of the bag. On each of these sections there is 

 a row of from three to four circular black dots placed parallel 

 to the short sides of the bag. The blue lines all represent 

 water; i.e., streams.* The dots are horse- tracks. On the 

 serrated cover-flap, low red and yellow triangles are hills or 

 mountains; blue lines bisecting them, trails. 



Fig. 4 of Plate xxii shows a bag made to hold food, espe- 

 cially coffee or sugar. Formerly it would probably have been 

 used for berries. The design on this bag, like several others 

 mentioned, and like the tent-ornament designs, was said by 

 the owner of the bag to have been first made by the mythical 

 character. Whirlwind- Woman. All the triangles, whatever 

 their color, represent hills. The yellow signifies daylight. 

 The small, black, pointed marks represent monuments of stones 

 on hill-tops, such as are often left there by those who have 

 sought the supernatural ; they also represent the buffalo- robes 

 of old men, set up to be prayed to; lastly, they represent 



