1902.] 



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tents. The two long red areas along the sides of the design 

 are the red of evening. The diamond in the centre is called 

 the navel, and therefore a person. There are three small red 

 figures in this diamond. The one in the very centre repre- 

 sents the person ' owning the case ; the two at the corners of 

 the diamond represent human beings. In general pattern, 



Fig. 44 (^A). Cover of a Shield. Diam., 28 cm. 



Fig. 45 (rSSs). 

 Design on a Crup- 

 per. Length of de- 

 sign, 47 cm. 



this cylindrical case resembles the average parfieche more 

 than it does the average medicine-case. 



An Arapaho medicine-case with a fourth kind of design is 

 in the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago. The figures on 

 this resemble bear-foot symbols. 



A piece of rawhide used to cover a shield is shown in Fig. 

 .44. The Jarge cross or star-shaped figure in the middle repre- 

 sents the morning star. All the triangles on the shield are 

 tents. The circles, both inner and outer, represent the sun. 

 The round black spots represent bullets, evidently those, that 

 the shield is intended to' stop. 



1 This may possibly mean the spirit-person that owns or inhabits the medicine-case. 



