Another example is a sacrificial back shield (fig. 93),[52] in which the symbol (_a_) represents a serpent, (_b_) white clouds, (_c_) black clouds, (_d_) rain, (yellow and white stripes); (_e_) three flowers, (_f_) a squash vine, these two representing vegetation, springing up after rain; and (_g_) the earth with its hills. [52] Page 146, fig. 173. Similar representations are found in embroideries in woven garments, thus a zig-zag line on a pouch[53] (fig. 94) represents lightning, the crosses the Pleiades. [53] Carl Lumholtz, Decorative Art of the Huichol Indians, Memoirs American Museum of Natural History, Vol. III, p. 325, fig. 257. Turning to Polynesia, von den Steinen[54] has given us a full description of tattooing of the Marquesans, from which it appears that in the minds of the natives the designs have definite significance. I mention a series of black triangles on rectangular bases, called the Fanaua, women who died in child birth (fig. 95 _a_); the cumulus clouds of the northwind (fig. 95 _b_). In fig. 95 _c_ the upper row was called by one informant, “the fellow with the step of the rooster”, the lower one “the hero Pohu and his house”. Another informant from another village, designated the figures with raised arms as legendary miscarriages consisting of a chest, the low semicircular and rectangular figures as others consisting of ribs only. Of the two analogous figures, 95 _d_ and _e_, the former is called a crab, the latter a turtle, while 95 _f_ is called the bath of the hero Kena. [54] Karl von den Steinen, Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst, Berlin 1925; also W. C. Handy, Tattooing in the Marquesas, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 7, Honolulu 1922. [Illustration: Fig. 93. Woven ceremonial object, Huichol Indians, Mexico.] [Illustration: Fig. 94. Design from a pouch, Huichol Indians.] [Illustration: Fig. 95. Tattooing designs, Marquesans.]