Again, there are in every part of the preceding paper examples of the close association between powers, or at least power-symbols, that are from many points of view incongruous; as the mirror and the hoop, the spider, the thunder, and the elk. There is in these a tendency to coalesce into conceptions of larger wholes in which the power becomes more general, tending toward the definite abstraction of a power-unit, or identity of forces in nature. These larger conceptions, that are really much more complex than indicated in this brief paper, seem to represent a growth, or at least an accumulation of ideas, on the part of a people who have not felt the need of systematically unifying them, or expressing them as an objective unit. [Illustration: ANTHROP. PAP. A. M. N. H. VOL. I, PLATE V. MODEL OF A SHIELD. ] [Illustration: SHIELD-DESIGN ON A CAPE. PLATE VI. ] [Illustration: ANTHROP. PAP. A. M. N. H. VOL. I, PLATE VII. MODEL OF A SHIELD. ] TRANSCRIBER NOTES Misspelled words and printer errors have been corrected. Punctuation has been maintained. Some illustrations were moved to facilitate page layout. [The end of _Some Protective Designs of the Dakota_, by Clark Wissler.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Protective Designs of the Dakota, by Clark Wissler