Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-08-27

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pie represented wear, they are sur
rounded by a setting peculiar and ap-
propriate to the subjects. The figures
do not as a rule stand at attention or
in mummy postures, but are pictured
as engaged in those occupations nat
ural and usual with the people. The
single figures are in big glass show
cases. and the groups are inclosed in
glass quarters as big as the show will
dows of shops. These exhibits re-
mind one of the long popular tab
leaux vivants," only these groups are
not "vivant," but are decidedly more
verisimilar and realistic than that form
of show probably ever was. The ex-
hibits are of high educational value.
and to overhear the comments OF
average Americans as they stand be-
fore the groups one realizes that the
common run Of people peed informa-
tion about strange folk.
In one of the halls are numerous
groups of American Indians, common
ly from five to seven in each group
and usually represented as engaged in
their domestic work. Many of the
women are pounding corn into meal
OF grinding it into meal by rubbing
the kernels between flint stones
There will be one large. fiat piece OF
flint inclined at about the same an
gle at which a washboard rests. The
worker will have round piece OF
flint. fashioned something like a roll
ing pin. and by rubbinb the grains OF
corn, handful at time, between
these stones, just as a woman washes
clothes, she grinds the grain into a
very coarse meal.
Among the exhibits are groups Of
Cocopa Indians from the Colorado
river country in Mexico. Hopi Indians
engaged in beautiful basketry, show
ing the leaves of the yucca in all
stages of manufacture; family
group of seven Sioux with one woman
pounding up strips Of dried buffalo
/ meat for a stew, one woman scrap
ing the hair off buffalo hide and two
maidens making beaded moccasins
There is an Apache group with the fig
ures dressed in barbaric elegance u.s.
ual to the prosperous members Of
that tribe A group Of Navajo silver
smiths-four of them-are fashioning
silver rings and bracelets by means
Of a curious bellows and crucible,
blow pipe. hammer and stamps. A
group Of Pueblo Indians is represented
as making bread and cooking meal
and the scene is not usually tantaliz-
Ing to white mans appetite There
is group of Zunis represented as 60
ing through the ritual of Creation
the Kaka. or sacred drama of these
people. The Maya Indians Of Guate-
mala are represented. and 80. too. are
the Tehuelche Indians OF Patagonia
the Loucheax Indians Of the Yukon
Mckenzie country, and the Chilkats
OF he north Pacific region, and there
Is also a large group OF KioWa In
dians which attracts good deal OF
notice.
There is picturesque Samoan
household. A woman is pounding bark
In the making Of cloth and a girl IS
straining kava Another woman IS
decorating bark cloth, while a man
with spear is looking on. The won.
en- have garlands of flowers around
their necks and their raiment though
scanty, is sufficient
There is a family of negritos, small
and very black people, who live in the
out-of-the-way places in several OF the
Philippine islands. The explanatory
card on this exhibit says that these
people are small, but strong ano
hardy. of remarkable endurance,
cheerful. intelligent, peaceable ana
moral, and that "they love music and
dancing" There are three men. two
women and a child in the group. Two
of them are represented as making
fire by friction with two strips OF
bamboo. Nearby is Filipino group
mainly engaged in making cotton
cloth. There are three women, glri
and a man. Further on is group OF
Ieorots engaged mainly in the making
of crude pottery.