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on the southwestern. Thus on the northeast beyond 



the limit of our area the Ojibway especially possessed 

 a highly developed pictographic type of art while the 

 Ute (Shoshone) of the extreme southwest of the area 

 seem to have practised no such pictographic art but 

 presented in contrast a highly developed geometric 

 type both in embroidery and rawhide painting. Taking 

 the Arapaho and Teton-Dakota as two intermediate 

 groups, we find the former inclining to the geometric 

 art of their Shoshonean neighbors, while the latter show 

 almost equal proficiency in the two contrasting types. 

 Thus, we seem to have two influences from opposite 

 directions, reinforcing the common suggestion that 

 the geometric art of this area was introduced from the 

 southwestern part of the continent. 



Fig. 44. Blanket Band in Quills. Blackfoot. 



