. The Arapaho. Arapaho Indians; Arapaho art; Symbolism in art; Picture-writing, Indian; Indians of North America; Indians of North America. I 14 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. \yo\. XVIII, denote yellow water and green water respectively. Each pair of them represents a lake. The white rectangles separat- ing these lake-figures represent bare ground. Fig. 6 of Plate xx shows the design on a particularly large parfleche. This design represents the appearance of the country where the maker of the parfleche lived. The tri- angles represent the mountains visible there. The red and yel
. The Arapaho. Arapaho Indians; Arapaho art; Symbolism in art; Picture-writing, Indian; Indians of North America; Indians of North America. I 14 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. \yo\. XVIII, denote yellow water and green water respectively. Each pair of them represents a lake. The white rectangles separat- ing these lake-figures represent bare ground. Fig. 6 of Plate xx shows the design on a particularly large parfleche. This design represents the appearance of the country where the maker of the parfleche lived. The tri- angles represent the mountains visible there. The red and yel- low coloring represents the appearance of their surface. These mountains were said not to be rocky, else their representa- tions would have been colored blue. The green on these tri- angles, as well as the unpainted hide, represent grass and vegetation. All the green lines are paths. The red and yel- low rectangles within the wide stripes along the sides are sticks, pointers, or pins \ ^^Si. for fastening together the front of the tent. The quadrilateral of green lines enclosing the design represents the ends of the earth (haneisa" biitaawu). On the rawhide bag shown in Fig. 32 a diamond in the centre represents a lake. Two short blue lines at its corners are streams of water flowing into the lake. In the centre of this large diamond is a smaller green one, which represents a frog. Black lines radiating from this green rhombus are the frog's legs. Besides the diamond, the central white area, which itself signifies sandy soil, contains two acute triangles. Short black lines in these, corresponding to those denoting frog-legs in the diamond, represent buffalo-tails attached to the ornaments on the tent. The border surrounding this interior ornamental area consists of a pattern of red and blue triangles. The red triangles are tents; the blue, mountains. Fig. 3" (iMi). of bag, 46 cm. Design on Rawhide Bag, Width. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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