North American Indians of the Plains . Fig. 45. Types of Designs on Moccasins. (Kroeber). beads and quills. Rawhide bags and parfleche (p. 65-7) were treated with a peculiar type of painting inmany colors. Realistic art was practised chiefly by menin the recording of war deeds (p. 100) and reached a highdegree of excellence among the Dakota and technical aspect of bead and quill work of the 127 128 INDIAN- til I III PLAINS Plains is quite peculiar. Formerly, there was Little or none of the woven work so eomnion in the EasternWoodland- and the forestfi of ( anada. the method herebein
North American Indians of the Plains . Fig. 45. Types of Designs on Moccasins. (Kroeber). beads and quills. Rawhide bags and parfleche (p. 65-7) were treated with a peculiar type of painting inmany colors. Realistic art was practised chiefly by menin the recording of war deeds (p. 100) and reached a highdegree of excellence among the Dakota and technical aspect of bead and quill work of the 127 128 INDIAN- til I III PLAINS Plains is quite peculiar. Formerly, there was Little or none of the woven work so eomnion in the EasternWoodland- and the forestfi of ( anada. the method herebeing to lay the quills on the surface of skins in largegeometric areas. The heads now in use were intro-duced by traders and have almost displaced the originalart of porcupine quill Fig. 46. Design Elements, Bead and Quill Embroidery. (Kroeber). The most numerous decorated objects in collectionsare moccasins which therefore offer an extensive designseries. Though often examples of each design maybe found upon the moccasins in a single tribe, thetendencies are always toward a few tribal types. Arapaho predominate in longitudinal stripes(Fig. 45, a-d), the Dakota in definite figures (f, g, , o), the Blackfoot in U-shaped figures (k . designs will be found upon leggings, bags,and pouches. All these designs may be resolved intosimple geometrical elements or patterns (Fig. 46). DEI l >H \ ll\ I \K r 129 Here also, tribal preferences are to be found. Therawhide paintings are also geometric and though thedesigns first appear quite complex, they can readilybe resolved into triangles and rectangles. Anotherpoint of special interest is that some tribes give theseconventionalized designs a symbolic value. This isparticularly true of the Arapah
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