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Ken, from what I’ve seen perusing as many pics as I could find, it seems that nearly all of them have the “straight” side against the rest of the piece, with the “slanted” side facing outward towards the end of the tenon.
Gustav Stickley also shows them with the flat side in and the slanted side out in several of his designs in a book of 62 craftsman furniture plans…they are shown this way in the plans/diagrams for several designs in this book.
Paul or one of the others may have something else to say on the matter, but from what I can tell, this seems to be fairly standard.
I think this begs another question, however. Does the mortise itself need to be slanted on one end as well? It would seem to me that this would be the case, but perhaps not.