Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-17
Note s of Interest
From State Museum

Santa he Dec. 1.-THE Museum
! library has received a copy of the new
edition of Bandelier's "Delightmak-
I ers," the remarkable novel; u classic
/ Of its kind. which against the back
ground Of the Rito de los Frijoles, de-
scribes the culture Of the cliff dwell
ors and the ancient Pueblos, with all
! the care of a trained archaeologist
and all the zest of an enthusiast, in
/ terWOVen in tho strands of thrill
4 ing story. Both f. w. Hodge ana
Charles f. Lummis write an intro
+ duction to the second edition in which
/ great praise is bestowed upon the
/ School of American Archaeology for
! its work in the Rito de los FIijolos
/ and in being instrumental in having
! it, created a national monument. the
/ beautiful halt tone pictures are iron,
photographs taken by Lummis under
/ the direction of Bandelier himself
! twenty-seyen Years ago, as well as
/ from photographs by the school OF
/ American Archaeology and Congress
man Frederick G. Hicks. The volume
comes out quite appropriately at
/ Christmas time for it makes an ideal
/ Christmas gift.
! Madame Vera Won Blumenthal OK
/ poets to leave for Pasadena tomorrow
/ to undertake the rebuilding of her
! bungalow which burned to the ground
week before last and which was the
center Of the Russian handicraft
movement in the United states, of
which the countess has charge.
william II. Handy, the author, who
! spent part of the summer ana fall in
! Santa Fe, has Il story, IF a Man Fails
Seven Times in this weeks SATURDAY
/ Evening Post
The Museum library today supplied
two public schools in New Mexico
with a set of the schools bulletin ana
publications for their libraries, the
museum supplying free Of charge to
all New Mexico school Libraries, such
publications as it has IN stock.
The museum today shipped fifty
lantern slides illustrative of Santa Fe
and surroundings to e. i. Page, the
big seed man of Greene n y, who
desires them to illustrate talks on
Santa Fe, which he gives to his en-
ployes as well as to his wealthy
friends in various parts Of New YORK
state.
Mrs. II. M. Freeman and Miss H.
f. Freeman, members of the Boston
Society of the Archaeological lnsti-
tute, are spending a few Gays in san
ia Fe on their way home from the
Pacific coast. Today they motored
to the Pecos mission and pueblo ruins.
They were accompanied by the Il
! brarian.
e. NJ. Nusbaum of Greeley, Colop
todaV hacamp n member of the Arch
geological society.
Films of the dances at Taos Tesu.
cue and of the Santa Barbara Tie and
Lumber company's operations in Taos
county, 5000 feet in all, We're ship
ped today by the museum through
the courtesy Of Col. r. f. Twitchell to
Rev Lansing Bloom, who viii show
them at the Presbyterian church at
Magdalena, which has just Installed
motion picture machine, The films
will later go on a circuit of south
western churches that give motion
picture exhibits on Sundays.
A million dollar motion picture mu-
scum is to be erected in Central park,
New York i'm which will be preserved
"such films of contemporary scenes,
monuments of thought and develop
ment of human experiences as Will
prove of greatest historical value TO
generations to come" Here, too the
Museum of New Mexico is in advance
of the times, for it has its motion
picture films of New Mexico develop
ment. taken by Colonel Twitchell for
the san Diego exposition and now
stored in the museum as depository
and historical archive.
+. c. Musgravc, the British painter,
arrived yesterday to join the santa
Fe art colony He came from Lon
don without stopping en- route, dlfect
TO this little old town because its
tame as an artist center has gone
ABROAD. He has been invaded from
/ the British war service. Before go
/ ing to England he painted in Austria
liza and later joined the Cornwall ar
| list colony
Miss Adelaide Chamberlain, of To-
! ledo, Ohio, the painter of miniatures
who has been in Santa Fe with her
mother the past few months, lett IoI
/ Los Angeles yesterday.
| Miss Clara LissetOr-Lane, the mag
( aZine writer and historian, IS at t,'c
museum gathering material Tor lle
| story of the Maxwell grant and the
/ story of Governor Bent and his ram
I lily. ,,,.,l,
Father Francis of Pena Blanca
who is taking much interest in the
| st. Francis mural paintings, yesterday
while viewing the pictures told OF eA-
traordinary burials he found IN lhe
I cliff ruins north of COchiti and the
specimens of fabrics which were
quite unique He has deposited them
! in the museum at Cincinnati
The first copy of the special num-
Der of Art and Archaeology deVoteu
entirely to the work of the School Oh
American Archaeology, has reached
here Its hundred pages make easily
the most artistic Christmas magazine
issued in America this year. Inc
frontispiece is a superb duo tint OF
the Old Palace and among the color
Illustrations is one of the Puye chi
dwellings, and several Of the Maya
monuments at Quirigua. The aru-
Gle by X. NJ. Chapman has over
hundred Illustrations Of bird designs
land the other contributions, all from
those connected with the School OF
American Archaeology are superbly
Illustrated with color. duo tint and
half tone pictures. Twenty thous-
and extra copies of this magnificent
magazine number have been printed
and will be sent to selected lists OF
weH-to-do people Interested IN art
md science. who will be invited to at
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