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pendant a1 each corner. Decorated painl bags of the 

 fringed type occur among the Gros Ventre, Assiniboin, 

 Arapaho, Sarsi, Dakota, and Shoshoni. A specimen 

 without the fringe appears in the Comanche collection. 

 The Blackfoot, Sarsi, Gros Ventre, and Assiniboin 

 use almost exclusively, bags with the flaps al the top, 

 and bearing similar decoration-. The Arapaho and 

 Dakota incline to this type but also use those with 

 straight tops. Among- the Shoshoni decorated painl 



Fig. 29. Strike-a-light Pouch. Arapaho. 



bags are rare, but two specimens we have observed 

 belong to these respective types. So far, it seems that 

 the Arapaho alone, use the peculiar paint bag with a 

 triangular tail, suggesting the ornamented pendants to 

 the animal skin medicine bags of the Algonkin in the 

 Woodland area. However, we have seen a large bag 

 of this pattern attributed to the Bannock. 



A round-bottomed pouch with a decorated field and 

 a transverse fringe was sometimes used for paint by the 

 Blackfoot. The decorated part is on stiff rawhide 



