Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960, Jesup Arapaho Expedition (1899-1901) · New York : [Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History · leaf 129
bears. As in the last bag de-scribed, the blue enclosing lines are mountains seen in thedistance. On the back, the blue square with its diagonalsrepresents the baax6ti, or big wheel, one of the Arapaho sacredtribal objects. It is a wooden hoop with two strings tiedacross it. As has been stated… … Fig. 34. 1 (iiVi), * (tJSj)- Designs on Rawhide Bags. Width ofbags, 20 cm., 33 cm. triangular piece forming the cover-flap, the blue line border-ing the edge represents the rainbow, and the small red tri-angle is the heart. Fig. 34, 6, shows a bag of about the same size as the pre-ceding, with much…
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