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The design painted on the rawhide portion of a crupper is 

 shown in Fig. 45. On each half there is a dark-blue zigzag 

 line in the centre, which represents a range of mountains. 

 The red on the inner side of the zigzag line represents the 

 earth. Light-blue ' stripes dividing the red area into sec- 

 tions, and surrounding the whole design, are rivers. The 



"Fig. 46, a (^), * (if^\ Rawhide Hats. Lenijth, about 35 



light-blue color also represents the prairie covered with a 

 certain blue flower (tcanaatanaeinoiiii). 



Young men sometimes wear a sun-shade that may be de- 

 scribed as the brim of a hat without the crown. It consists 

 of a piece of rawhide somewhat over a foot long. Near the 

 back end of this, a circular area about six inches in diameter 

 has a number of radii slit into it. When this part of the 



' The light-blue is represented by horizontal shadins. 



