Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
LOOKING BACK 400 YEARS.
"The Magic Window" Enables One to
See Primitive New York.

Albany say that they have provided tic
means Icy which it is possible Tor any
one to look back four centuries and see
New York as a vast forest inhabited by
Indians and wild beasts. TO see this re-
zion as ruled by the famous confed-
eraeY of the Five Nations, to see the In
dian as he was before the coming of the
white man. 1t sounds like a chapter
from n fairy tale. but the truth of the
statement is Vouched Tor by no less dis
tingushed a scientist than Director Or.
.Iahq NJ. Clarke of the State Science hlNi-
sion. According to him it is no longer
necessary to draw upon imagination or
to guess vaguely what things must have
been before Columbus came, for one
may now look through the magic win
dow" which science has provided and see
primitive New York and its primitive IN
habitants, the Five Nations of the Iro-
quois.
This claim is made by the archaeologi-
cal department in announcing the conn
pletion of the first Indian group in the
! remarkable series OF chronological groups
now being made for the Governor Myron
Z. Clark Han of lfedueis Ethnology of
the New York State Museum in the new
State Education Building
\ few persons have visited the museum
studios and have looked through the
magic windows" and before them they
saw Il group of Seneca Indians, engaged
in their spring hunting activities. The
Illusion is perfect, 50 experts say The
| trees with their spreading branches, the
sfeat expause of water, the sacred hill
If the Senecas. the ratiaes and even III
grass and ferns all appear so natural
that those who know tire spot as it naW
exists express the greatest establishment.
/ Even the Indians in the scene are as hle-
Ike as if actual Indians We're posed and
yet If IS all paint and plaster
This group is called tie "Seuec5t HgR-
| ters' Camp, and represents Seneca In
dams in their sprHs hunt. The scene i
laid on the west shore Of Canndaigua
lake. across from which is seen Bafe
Hail or Ganundawao the sacred mother
mountain of the Screen Indians, In The
foreground is an cid hunter plodding in
| with a freshly killed doe younger hun
ter warrior stands near him with Il
drawn bow. evidently shooting at some
! dying game bird. Two women look up
anXieusiy as. if To say. so YOU are back
with more work for us The Older wo-
man is taking the hair of Il deer skin,
while about her arc bark watts mled with
the skins of deer. wolves and panthers,
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younger woman stripping chunk OF
venison for ''jerkiug Meat drying in
the smoke is seen. GA q drying fraine
near by.
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he ancient ehaffths ana ciopiihs
process, \ IRE SO real n us appear eiiee
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