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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    Many of the paint bags used by the Blackfoot re¬ semble their pipe bags even to the fringe and the flaps at the mouth. However, many paint bags in cere¬ monial outfits are without fringes or decorations of any kind. Some have square cut bases and some curved; their lengths range from 8 to 15 cm. In some cases, those with square cut bases are provided with a pendant at each corner. Decorated paint bags of the fringed type occur among the Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Fig. 25. Strike-a-light Pouch. Arapaho. Arapaho, Sarsi, Dakota, and Shoshone. A specimen without the fringe appears in the Comanche collection. The Blackfoot, Sarsi, Gros Ventre, and Assiniboine use almost exclusively, bags with the flaps at the top, and bearing similar decorations. The Arapaho and Dakota incline to this type but also use those with straight tops. Among the Shoshone decorated paint bags are rare, but two specimens we have observed belong to these respective types. So far, it seems that