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and rocks of various colors upon it. These mountains are 

 of course represented by the triangles forming the design. 

 On a small yellow triangle, duplicated for symmetry, are two 

 small black lines ; these are the first people. 



On the back, a square with its diagonals represents, as in 

 a previous instance, the sacred wheel or hoop. This design 

 also represents a shield, both because the shield resembles the 

 hoop in shape and size, and because the bag is suspended by a 

 string around the neck, like a shield. The line bordering the 

 edge of the cover-flap represents a bow. 



The bag shown in Pig. 3 of Plate xxiii has two diamonds 

 in the centre of the design painted on its front. Each of 

 these consists of four smaller diamonds, which represent the 

 navel. Two small triangles adjacent to these diamonds rep- 

 resent small loops of hide wound with porcupine-quills, such 

 as are attached to the ends of pendants on tents, cradles, etc. 

 (toufiika'haana"). Four larger triangles adjacent to the dia- 

 monds are tents. Segments of circles below these are brush- 

 shelters. Four long right-angled triangles at the sides of the 

 design are awl-cases. 



On the back of this bag the segments represent, as on the 

 front, shelters. The enclosing lines represent the earth. The 

 transverse stripes are paths. On the cover a vertical row of 

 squares represents wooden buckets or bowls. 



In the design on the bag shown in Fig. 4 of Plate xxiii, 

 acute and obtuse isosceles triangles represent, as in most 

 cases, tents and mountains. A blue rhombus in the middle is 

 a lake. Yellow and red areas in the figures of mountains 

 represent lakes. Double blue lines enclosing the whole of the 

 design, as also that on the back, are mountain-ranges. Yel- 

 low squares on the back of the bag are lakes, black dots de- 

 noting their centres (invisible in the figure) ; and white squares 

 are ravines. The stripes following the notched edge of the 

 cover also represent mountains. 



Fig. 39 shows a bag. On the front, a rectangular area con- 

 tains two triangles and a rhombus, bordered by green lines. 

 These lines represent water. The red and blue backgrounds 

 of the triangles and rhombus represent clouds of those colors. 



