Evening star., 1921-07-03

- TRANCE people from many parts
Of the world are figured in the
IL National Museum. For the
most part they are savages and
mi-savages, but some of the races
or sub-races of men shown have be-
hind them centuries of civilized an
cestry. This section of the museum,
which is technically called the ethno-
logical section. is perhaps the most
popular in Americas largest curiosity
shop. Perhaps already it is the larg-
est curio shop on earth. Large
crowds Of men and women stand be-
fore the groups of strange people and
the children who enter that hall are
almost entranced by the show Of
American Indian families of scores Of
tribes. savages from the South Sea
islands, many kinds of people from
the Businesses and remote parts of
Africa and nearly every corner and
alley. forest and island Of the earth
where naked. eech-clouted or rude
ly dressed barbarians live.
size. They have been modelled from
Ia plastic substance. colored and
clothed as is the habit of the people
and arranged in setting appropriate
to the subjects. The figures in the
groups are postured as though en-
they are naturally given.
In the groups of American Indians
women are shown squat upon the
ground pounding corn into meal and
cooking the foods that commonly find
a place on their bill of fare. The
men are usually shown as having just
come in from hunting. and the chill
dren run to meet them. Each group
is intended to represent a family
where all the members are at home.
ing corn and acorns into meal and
then into cakes or bread are shown.
In one group a woman Is grinding
corn by rubbing the kernels between
two stones. In another a squaw is
sitting before nat stone inclined at
board rests. With a piece of worn
flint resembling a rolling pin she is
rubbing to the fineness Of meal a
handful of grains of corn. Reducing
those grains to a coarse powder, she
takes up another handful of corn and
repeats the process. AS this rude In
dian woman 'mills' the corn between
the fat stone and the long cylindrical
stone. one thinks Of a woman wash
ing clothes.
THERE are groups Of Cocopa In
dians from the Colorado river
country in Mexico; Hopi Indians en-
gagged in the work Of making beau
tiful baskets and showing the leaves
Of the yucca in all stages Of its
manufacture: family group of
seven Sioux. with one woman pound
ing up a strip Of buffalo meat to make
stew, one woman scraping the
hair of a buffalo hide and two little
Indian maidens beading moccasins.
A group Of Apaches are dressed in
the wild and barbaric elegance Pc
culiar to the prosperous members OF
that tribe. A group Of Navajo silver
smiths-four of them-are making
silver rings and other bits'of jew
elry by means Of a forge. a rude
that probably you ever saw, a blow
pipe, hammer and stamps. A group
of Pueblo Indians are shown making
bread and cooking a meal. and the
scene is not SO tantalizing to the
appetite that men, women and chill
dren cry for an invitation to the
dinner.
Zunis going through the ritual of
"Creation"-the Ka.Ka-or the sa-
cred drama Of these people. The
Maya Indians OF Guatemala are rep
resented and so. too. are the Tehuel-
che Indians OF Patagonia;s y the Lou
cheax Indians Of the Yukon-Mcken-
zie country, the Chilkats of the
north Pacific region. and there is
also large group Of Kiowa Indians,
tion.
one showing . Samoan household.
Three women. two girls and man