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earth. Transverse stripes and rows of dots are the various 

 trails and sites of camps on the earth. On the cover, obtuse 

 triangles are mountains. 



Fig. 42 shows a small narrow bag like the one just described 

 as a feather-bag. This one was used to hold porcupine-quills, 

 which are generally kept in pouches of gut. 



On the front, two rows of irregularly drawn rhombi — one 

 row yellow, and one green — represent strings of german- 

 silver plates formerly worn by the men, hanging from their 

 scalp-locks. The white unpainted triangles adjacent to these 

 rhombi are tents. 



On the back, transverse lines represent ropes. On the two 

 flaps serving as a cover, the lines forming angles represent 

 mountains. Small green trapezoidal marks represent the 

 bunches of hair often worn by children over the forehead 

 (itceifaa"). 



Of the colors on this bag, green represents the earth ; red, 

 paint; yellow, daylight. The colors also represent all exist- 

 ing objects of those colors. 



In the design on the bag shown in Fig. i of Plate xxiv the 

 obtuse triangles are hills; the acute triangles, tents. The 

 two diamonds in the middle are the navel of man and woman. 

 The lines enclosing the design are the camp-circle. The 

 same meaning obtains on the back of the bag. Here trans- 

 verse stripes are also tent-poles. On the cover, angular fig- 

 ures represent the ears or flaps of the top of the tent; small 

 pointed figures are the wooden pins holding together the 

 front of the tent. 



Fig. 2 of Plate xxiv shows another bag. On the front, at 

 each end, are four trapezoids. These represent the "hills" 

 or periods of life. Two at each end are green, and two red 

 and blue. These latter represent red and black paint, — a 

 frequent combination in ceremonials. The white spaces be- 

 tween these trapezoids are lakes. All the triangles in the 

 design are hills and mountains. The white unpainted sur- 

 face is all water, except the white stripes along the edges and 

 through the middle of the design; these stripes are roads. 



On the back, black spots are buffalo-dung. Three trans- 



