The Holbrook news., 1911-12-29

k days ago is regarded by anti
 quarians of the far west as
 substantial evidence in support of the
 theory that the American Indians are
 of old world descent
 The beads were a present to Mrs
 Claire Bell, 428 North Alabama street,
 from her mother, Mrs. B. l. Canfield,
 who is a teacher in the Sherman in
 stitute, a school for Indian children
 at Riverside, Cal, and they are the
 work of the girls in the school.
 The beads are pellets about the size
 of pea and jet black. They are hard and metallic to the touch, but are as light as paper. The wonderful pc culiarity about them Is that they have a strong. agreeable odor of roses, an odor that never VIII leave them, and it Is this pecull arlIr that makes them of such interest 10 saliquarians.
 For, accordlne 10 Mrs. Canfeld, who received her InI0fmation from a pa per published D California anti quarian who tec4ns absorbed in the study of the be1 not this particular string, but ot1e Ike them made by the Indian fI. q the southwest beads remarkabIy eImilar to these have been found in the pyramids of Egypt and in ts1les of oriental an tiquity. Those befd8 In spite of the fact that they had been buried for scores of centuries, still retained strong, delicate scent of roses.
 A comparison of these beads with rare strings of beads in the possession of Indians of the southwest, who are supposed to have migrated north from the Inca settlements in Peru, showed them to be identical. As the beads were wholly unlike anything else of known existence, the conclusion was reached that the ancestors of the In dians must have been either the mak- CTS of the beads found in the pyra mids or their ancestors.
 White men were deeply puzzled over the composition of the beads, and it was supposed that the manufac- ture of them must be one of the lost I arts. But when the Indians discov- cred the interest that had been aroused in their relics, they found that the method of making them had l been transmitted through the tribe by | tradition. They set to work, accord l ingly. and duplicated the pellets, to the astonishment of the white men.
 The secret of the Indians did not remain exclusively tribal for very | long, however, since a great demand arose at once for the rose-scented | beads. The art was taught to large number of the Indians, and from them It leaked out, until now there Is no longer a mystery about their manu- facture
 But the novelty of it is just as inter sstiIG as the mystery. The secret of the scent of roses is that the beads are actually made of rose petals.
 "The Indian girls at our school hold parties to make the beads" said Mrs. Garfield, much on the order of the judge parties of their white sisters. or nore like the old-fashioned spinning 'r quilting parties.
 "They gather bushels and bushels of 'ose plants, which grow, as you know, n profuse abundance in California. They grind these petals up very fine, them through a grinder seven 4AAACo oC1CA l4A1Cb-yOA o1J orty-nine times, for there is a mystic ignificance to them in the expression seven times seven which is lost in he prosaic 'forty-nine,' and this mys- icism, they believe, has an important art in the result of their labors.
 When the petals are properly round they are put into iron pans nd tincture of iron is poured over hem. That ends the first party, for is necessary to let the mixture set or several days, so that the tincture i'll eat into the iron of the pan and olor the composition black. Every ( me one of the girls passes pan dur 1g this period of 'ripening' she stirs ne mixture with her hands. so that it |