The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21
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u your own: else don't blame the
other fellow for having his
Dla you ever try 10 photograph en-
II so, you have either had MIN Gghs
you, turn away or ask for uouev. The
indian has very strong dislike Tor
having his picture made.
Why?
/ asked this very question white on o
picture making jaunt with him not long
ago, Of Major Lee MOoThouse Of PEN
dleton, OTe- who has the largest and
best lot Of Indian negatives in the
world
Tine main reason why the Indian
doesn't want you to take him. said
the major. lis because he believes that
II you make his picture il takes Just
that much away from the length of bis
life. He can't see where the picture
comes from nor how you can put q
small black box on three yellow legs.
press rubber ball and make a JainE
lndl looks like him. II is all - strange
10 him. that he looks upon the camera
a9 thing uncanny- And the pocket
kod"k. When, That IS what he hates
most of all. IF 7 were TO meet an IN
dian all by myself out in the woods,
even IF he were nv friend, I'd never
turn zoIak On him with one hand
unless / drew a gun with the other.
The old SCU4WS are The worst of al
because many of them believe that fl
they let man take their picture, be-
Ing Old they would drop dead.
BE- often amUses me to see some ten
oerfOot down at the railway station
jump OF of train ard try to snap
ouns buck, only TO have him draw a
blanket over his face and stand sulien
as a posSum. l bad to laugh The other
hon Iaf "a
been "a t-tripper-carefully set ND "a
tripod on the platform and turned hes
lenses on q gTCun. Every time she was
ready TO press the button the Indians
would move 10 another place. They dew
lied the girl until the train started,
and she never got snap They laughed
az her; and as her car passed them she
called ont: on YOU mean things
'l5ut Won certainly don't have any
trouble with them yourself, major
said l. You seem to have a picture Of
every Indian in the country"
oh. YES. I do. I strike hard COM
biudtiou once i'm q while. There was
one old buck around here whose pic
lure I tried to get for several years but
couldn't Finally, one day a young In
dian said To me: You know why Five
Grows no let you take him picture? Re
believe he So TO hell Now I knew thai
an Indian would go To the devil for
whisky I met Five Crows and ] asked
hlm again 10 let me photograph him.
This time he said: How much YOU
EiNc2
$50 bits" said l.
No. uox (onel dollar"
An right, aid I. and I handed him
The money. ] knew wha. nc would DO
with the dollar: but since he was MS
tOrical figure ha-ing been a leading
6SlteE<1 the BSnuock wa, ! wanted
} IS 9icturs as badly as ne did quart
Of i.rewater-.
Il made that picture. out d few
weeks after Five crows fell off NJ his
horse and was killed. OF course he was
drunk but the Indians thought that
having mis- picture MADE was the caUs3
Of his Heath and IT was Q long time
after tnat before ] could get any Of
them 10 stand for me. Every Jime any
Indian on the reservation dies they
EtdrJ the OLD story over again that
Ei!lasl 4sn3."
wen. what is the best way TO get
them. maior2" I asked.
"Oh. just let 'em alone and they'll
come around When YOU do make the
snap though they bother you nearly
To death until you show them the
print
such was the way il went with us
during the next few days. We had now
reached the Indian camp. The major
set uD his camera.
Here comes" said ne. IAN old fell
low J want to take a crack at. His
names Lazy Dog"
"Ho, Lazy Dog" said the major.
make him picture today2"
lymph" was the only reply the In
dian made, and on he rode
They'll come around after awhile,