Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ter, 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 horizo
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ter, 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 track, caterpillar—especially where broad single diagonallines with subdivided surfaces are used—as well as trail, pack strap,and contracted middle. New terms for vertical arrangements areascending zigzag (sketch 104), blanket, parfleche, wave, Ughtning,. 111
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