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object it symbolizes. I Mains art clearly show- that 

 often along with a style of design, goes also a style or 

 mode of interpretation. Since this interpretation is 

 a reading-in on the part of those having such a mode, 

 any vague resemblance will suffice. 



Fig. 43. Painted Designs on a Woman's Robe. Dakota. 



This is nicely illustrated in the curious U-shaped 

 figure upon the beaded yokes of many woman's dresses. 

 Some Teton-Dakota women once said this had always 

 been known to them as representing a turtle's head and 

 legs as he emerged from the lake (the beaded yoke). 



