The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-12
SEEING AMERICA AT COLUMBUS
Biggest Exhibit Celebration Devoted Continental United
States and Insular Possessions.

demonstrate the manufacture OF black
pottery In their primitive fashion
which. despite years In which they
have lived under the rule OF the white
man, continues to be the Same as that
OF their ancestors-all hand work
without the use of the potter's wheel.
Navajo women rug weavers from the
southwest and Saint Regis indian bas-
ket makers from northern New York
were added to this section OF Indian
| life and industries.
A band of Choctaw Indians from
| Oklahoma also were called upon to
demonstrate their life and Industries,
while the primitives of the northwest
| are represented by the Siwash A war
dance of the rival tribes In which peace
Is brought about by the interpostion of
missionary, Is daily feature plan
| for the exposition.
How the Methodist missionaries have
been a practical daily help to these
primitive tribes is demonstrated by
their introduction. to the Indian OF mod
ern medical science and sanitation. A
realistic life play shows a member of
an Indian tribe treated for illness by
a medicine man. with his weird in
carnations. He Ia forced to give way
before n field matron of the missions
who explains and demonstrates the mod
ern way to cure or prevent illness, sup
planting the natives deeply rooted SUI
perstitions.
ing OF tepee. demonstration of the
laguage of the robes. potlatch and an
Indian wedding ceremonial, as well as
an exhibit OF the old Indian stick
gambling game.
Esklmos Also Represented.
Even the Eskimos are represented at
the celebration. in connection with their
totem poles and their igloos or snow
houses. An Eskimo widely known in
the mission field. Mrs. Eide. who was
interpreter for Stefansson, the explor-
err, when he was at Point Barrow, vol |
interpreting her people to the EXPOSE |
ton throngs In her childhood she |
was taken into the household of Shell |
don Jackson. the apostle of Alaska, and |
reared in Christianity. Her story is a |
fascinating one of life in the Arctic |
wastes, and proves an interesting fea-
ture OF the celebration.
Daily talks on Alaskan and Eskimo |
life and features, the significance OF
the totem poles, and vast collection
in this section an attraction of unusual
interest.
Work among the mountaineers OF the
country districts completes for interest
with the Indian features and empha-
sizes this little known field of mission
mimic sketches show how the mission
aries with their scientific treatment of
Illness and their education of the young
are driving out ignorance, superstition
and squalor among these isolated
Americans whose educational and other
advantages have been of the. scantiest
A typical moonshiner's
cabin in which the poverty'and squalor
rivals that of the slums is the center
IF the mountaineer work exhibit.
Mexican scenes are shown in the
American building. and a number of
MeXicans have been obtained to remind
he sightseers that there are hundreds
" thousands of these natives of the
southern republic living within the bor-
lers of the United States, all clinging
o their old customs, garb and housing
Missionary work among the American
legroes forms another picturesque fea-
ure of the American building exhibits.
Plantation negroes sing and play their | ,
'anjos in southern cotton picking scene.
contrast between the antebellum ne
TO and his educational and professional ,
escendants is the keynote of this Sec p,
ion.
Frontier life in the far west, show ,
ng a typical land Office and settlers
n their rough homes, with a real cow ,
oy and lasso- thrower to add action, . i.
as been assigned one large corner of
he American building.
The life of the transplanted oriental I
4 America, including Chinese, Japanese
nd Koreans, requires special section
l this building to differentiate from
he exhibit in the separate building as J
gned to those races. Here these :
RENTALS are shown in their occidental
lothing, working at industries which L
ney have taken up, particularly those
ituated on the Pacific coast Alto {
ether the twin American buildings con- T
ain not only complete index of the | 8
ONE mission field. but an exhibit of
iversttied interest and wide public ap- I