North American Indians of the plains / by Clark Wissler.

  • Clark Wissler
Date:
1912
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: North American Indians of the plains / by Clark Wissler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    object it symbolizes. Plains art clearly shows that often along with a style of design, goes also a style or mode of interpretation. Since this interpretation is a reading-in on the part of those having such a mode, any vague resemblance will suffice. Fig. 43. Painted Designs on a Woman’s Robe. Dakota. This is nicely illustrated in the curious IJ-shaped figure upon the beaded yokes of many woman’s dresses. Some Teton-Dakota women once said this had always been known to them as representing a turtle’s head and legs as he emerged from the lake (the beaded yoke).