Evening star., 1913-02-09

10 perfection from a plastic SUBSTANCE
colored, clothed with such articles OIL
dress and adornment as the people repre-
sented wear. they are surrounded by Il
setting peculiar and appropriate to the
subjects. The figures do not as rule
stand at attention or in mummy postureS,
but are pictured engaged i'll those oc-
cupations natural and usual with the
people The single figures are in big
glass showcases, and the groups are in
closed in glass quarters a. big as the
show windows of shops. These exhibits
remind one of the long popular 'tableauN
viv4nts" only these groups are not vi
vart" but arc decidedly more verisimiiar
ano realistic than that form of show
probably ever was The exhibits are of a
high educational value, and to overhear
the comments of average Americans as
they stand before the groups one realizes
that the common run of people need in
formation about strange folk.
In one of the halls are numerous
groups of American Indians, commonly
from five to seven in each group. and
usually represented as engaged III their
domestic work. Many of the women are
pounding corn into meal or grinding II
into meal by rubbing the kernels be-
tween flint stones. There Will be one
large fiat piece of flint inclined at about
the same angle at which ~ashpodro
rests The worker will have a round
niece of flint fashioned something like
a rolling pin, and by rubbing the grains
of corn, handful at a time. between
these stones. just as a woman washes
clothes. she grinds the grain into
very coarse meal
Among the exhibits are groups of Co
coma Indians from the Colorado river
country in Mexico. Hopi Indians engaged
in beautiful basketry. showing the leaves
OF the Yucca in all stages of manufac-
ture: a family group of seven Sioux with
one woman pounding up strips of dried
buffalo meat for a stew. one woman
scras1ing the hair off buffalo hide ana
two maidens making beaded moccdS1ns.
There is an Apache group with the fg-
ureS dressed in barbaric elegance usual
TO the prosperous members of that tribe
\ group of Navajo silverSmths-four or
them-are fashioning silver rings ana
bracelets by means of curious bellows
and crucible, d blow pipe. hammer ana
stamps \ group of Pueblo Indians Is
represented as making bread and cooking
- meal, and the scene is not usually tan
taliZing TO a white mans appetite There
is a group of ZuniS represented as going
through the ritual of Creation" the ka-
IA or sacred drama of these people.
The Maya Indians of Guatemala are rep
resented. and SO too are the Tehuelche
Indians of Patagonia. the Loucheax In
dams of the acknowledgements country,
and the Chilkats of the north Pacific
region. and there is also large group
of kiowa Indians which attracts good
deal of notice.
There is a picturesque Samoan house
hold. 4 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 a spear is look
ing on. The women have garlands of
flowers around their necks and their
rainent, though scanty, is sufficient.
There is family of negritos. small
and very black people. who live in the
out-of-the-way places in several of the
Philippine Islands. The eXplana tory card
on this exhibit says that these people
are small. but strong and hardy. of re-
peaceable and 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, a girl and a
man. Further on is Il group of Igorots
engaged mainly in the making of crude
pottery
There are several Eskimo groups and
one large group representing John Smith,
a lieutenant and three English soldiers
trading beads. little mirrors, ribbons and
sIittering trifles with d group of Poto-
mac Indians.
y good many people gather around the