where budding branches appear emerging from the two short spurs at the base representing the vegetation around the roots. The long straight line running from the bottom through to the star is a root. The three pairs of spurs along this line represent the nodes where the branches join the trunk. In this design the colors are used irrespective of their real values, the branches and root being green, the balsam firs, red, blue, and white, the star blue and white, and the nodes red. Figure 8 shows another typical design, from a piece of embroidered caribou skin. It represents uniformly a balsam fir tree with verdant and dead branches alternating, in red, blue, and white, with red nodes. where the branches join, with budding branches at the bottom and green vegetation at the roots similar to the preceding figure. A common design on small caribou skin bags for tobacco consists of a tree figure with balsam fir branches alternating with dead branches of type n, figure 6, surmounted on the top with the cat's paw, star, marguerite, flox, or wild chicory. Small scissors-holders of caribou skin, for the tourist trade, are embroidered commonly with disconnected figures of barberry, flox, and crossed branches. These Indians also make buckskin hunting coats with fringed epaulets over the seam of each shoulder upon which the women embroider very attractive designs. Above the fringe, oftentimes of metal danglers with tufts of moose or caribou bristles (figs. 4, 5), there usually appears a zigzag enclosure, following the outline of the epaulet, within which is a tree design surrounded by disconnected figures. Here the balsam fir, cat's paw, clover, and flox seem to be the most used, the whole diversified with various forms of dead or leafless branches. Upon the collar and cuffs of these coats the same designs with zigzag border have been noticed. Wall pockets of caribou leg, with the hair and hoof on, for the reception of pipes are commonly manufactured by the Huron and

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Typical moose hair design.

their neighbors. The facings of the pockets are usually bordered with the zigzag which encloses designs and figures similar to those placed on the epaulets of coats. Long narrow surfaces, such as belts, bandoliers, moccasin lapels, coat fronts, or legging flaps, the latter from hearsay, are ordinarily decorated with long sinuous lines from which at intervals balsam fir sprays or various flowers branch off. In all such areas of decoration the zigzag takes a very prominent place as a border. A hunting knife case of caribou leg was observed, its buckskin lapel decorated with a series of green balsam fir figures. A headdress band had at intervals separate figures representing pink marguerites, and green balsam firs, the latter quite long, the whole band being bordered above and below with a zigzag. Balsam fir patterns like this in which there were fifty spurs on each side are known to have been made. An old pair of child's moccasins in the Heye collection has a broad flap or lapel decorated with cat's paw figures and branch stumps at intervals, joined together by a waving line or stem. On the vamp the cat's paw forms the central figure with barberries at each side. Outline figures of bow and arrows, tomahawk, and cross are sometimes used as decorations, though these are undoubtedly of quite modern adoption.

In the collection of Mr George G. Heye there is a Huron costume consisting of a sleeved coat, skull cap with tuft of feathers at the top, and leggings, a remarkable example of the moose hair technique (see pl. 1). The entire costume is made of the skin of the harbor seal with the hair side out. On the cap are a series of red cloth diamond cut-outs sewed on the skin. These are decorated with the characteristic Huron zigzags and cat's paw figures. The coat is ornamented on the collar, front facings, cuffs, and lower border all around with hair-embroidered designs on the red cloth foundation. All of these are likewise thoroughly characteristic both in technique and outline. They include the ever-present zigzag, cat's paw, balsam fir, star, flox, daisy, stumps, and roots in various groupings as will be seen from the illustration. A series of ornamental triangular cut-outs about the lower border of the coat is very suggestive of the similarly decorated Montagnais and Naskapi where oftentimes, indeed, even similar painted flower figures appear.