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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 

 while the upper is of soft leather, the sides and mouth 

 of which are edged by two and three rows of beads 

 respectively. This seems to be an unusual form for 

 the Blackfoot and rare in other collections: while the 

 related form, a large rounded bag, frequently encount- 

 ered in Dakota and Assiniboine collections has not been 

 observed among the northern group of tribes. The 

 Blackfoot collection contains two small, flat rectangular 

 cases with fringes. One of these was said to have been 

 made for a mirror, the other for matches. However, 

 such cases were formerly used by many tribes for 

 carrying the ration ticket issued by the government. 

 Their distribution seems to have been general in the 

 Plains. 



Some tribes used a long double saddle bag, highly 

 decorated and fringed. There was usually a slit at 

 one side for the horn of the saddle. So far, these have 

 been reported for the Blackfoot, Sarsi, Crow, Dakota, 

 and Cheyenne. They are mentioned as common in 

 the Missouri Area, by Larpenteur, who implies that 

 the shape is copied after those used by whites. Morice 

 credits the Carrier of the Mackenzie culture area with 

 similar bags used on dogs. 



