Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . way (sketches 577 and 578, pi. 89). Sketch 95, called deer fence withsnares, and sketch 96, designated as an Indian fortress, may be placedwith these zigzags or may belong to the class of highly conventional-ized realistic designs. With designs of this character, the compositionas well as interpretation of which is more or less complicated, it isdifficult to make a distinction. Sketches 99 to 101 are parts of thesezigzag designs and are interpreted like other zigzags. Sketches 102and 103 are oft
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . way (sketches 577 and 578, pi. 89). Sketch 95, called deer fence withsnares, and sketch 96, designated as an Indian fortress, may be placedwith these zigzags or may belong to the class of highly conventional-ized realistic designs. With designs of this character, the compositionas well as interpretation of which is more or less complicated, it isdifficult to make a distinction. Sketches 99 to 101 are parts of thesezigzag designs and are interpreted like other zigzags. Sketches 102and 103 are often called arrow point designs because of the presenceof the triangles. BOiS] GEOMETRIC FORMS 311 As in the case of straight lines, the zigzags composed of shortdiagonals are given on the whole the same interpretations withoutregard to their vertical or horizontal position. A number of newnames make their appearance -with the vertical zigzag, however, whichare not applied to horizontal forms. The terms for horizontal ar-rangements, but used also for those in vertical position, are snakeand snake
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