PRIMITIVE ART 
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can codices, or as they may be recognized on the garments of 
ancient sculptured figures, shows that these types of weaving did 
not exist before the advent of the Spaniards and the introduc- 
tion of European fabrics. 
For this reason it is interesting to note that by some tribes 
the designs are at present given interpretations quite analogous to 
those found among the Prairie Indians and among other primitive 
tribes. A collection of belts, ribbons and pouches from the Huichol 
tribe of western Mexico (Case 15), illustrates this point. The zig- 
zag triangle, described by the Californian Indians as the arrow 
design, is called here the “double water-gourd”’ design. The In- 
dians compare the hourglass figure, which originates frorn a 
combination of two triangles, to the double gourd, which has 
two thick ends and a constriction in the middle. The X- 
shaped form, also quite common, is interpreted as a brush made 
of loose fibres tied together in the middle or at one end. A series 
of scrolls is an element which occurs very frequently in their weav- 
