Another Shoshone parfleche of similar pattern, was explained as follows: a blue line enclosing an inner rectangle is a fort or enclosure surrounded by the enemy, represented by red and green squares of the border. A yellow and red line passing through the center is the pass by which the people escape. [Illustration: Fig. 90. Bamboo case, Melanesia.] [Illustration: Fig. 91. Zuni bowl, broken and edges ground down.] A consistent geographically explained ornament has also been described by Stephan (fig. 90). The upper zig-zag line (_a_) represents a snake; the rectangular fields under it (_b_), the sea moved by the wind. The dark corners of the rectangle (_c_) indicate calm on deep water. The central field with cross hachure (_d_), rain on the sea or ripples on the water. The lowest bands (_e_, _f_) and the top band (_a_) do not belong to the sea picture. (_e_) is explained as the veins of the coconut leaf, (_f_) as a kind of grass. In the opposite end (_a_) is not explained, (_b_) is a snake. The rest of the design fits in with the geographical pattern, (_c_) being rocks beaten by breakers. I am indebted to Miss Ruth L. Bunzel for the following consistent interpretation of a Zuni bowl,—part of a deep bowl the upper part of which has been broken off. Her informant explained it as follows (fig. 91): “We call the whole design ‘cloud all alone’. When a person does not go to the dances when they dance for rain, after her death she goes to the Sacred Lake and when all the spirits of the other dead people come back to Zuni to make rain, she cannot go, but must wait there all alone, like a single little cloud left in the sky after the storm clouds have blown over. She just sits and waits all alone, always looking and looking in all directions, waiting for somebody to come. That is why we put eyes looking out in all directions.” Consistent symbolic interpretations have also been given for ceremonial objects of the Huichol Indians.[51] [51] Carl Lumholtz, Symbolism of the Huichol Indians, Memoirs American Museum of Natural History, Vol. III, page 125, fig. 133. [Illustration: Fig. 92. Ceremonial object, Huichol Indians, Mexico.] On a “front shield”, a sacred object (fig. 92) fertility symbols are represented by geometrical figures: “The cross in the center represents four clouds on the horizon, the colored segments completing the inner circle represent red and blue birds (swifts) soaring above the clouds. In the second circle are shown crosses representing red, yellow and blue corn. In the outer zone is a zig-zag line in red and blue representing Mother East-water, a Deity. Nine triangles between head and tail of the serpent, crowded together, represent mescal (a narcotic cactus) which is considered related to corn and is held as a prayer for rain and for health.”