Evening star., 1936-01-19

1rOm NAQLuCkcS 10 DuIlkl!k.
Some time ago the church at Nam
tuckev was in need Of new organ.
TIE members of the church objected
to incurring any Indebtedness, so they
conducted numerous activities to raise
money for the outright purchase of
the organ. BY exhibiting the cherry
stone publicly and privately at the
rate of 10 and Is cents sight large
part of the necessary cash was COL
lected.
"In 1903 Moses Joy decided to make
replicas of the spoons In a cherry
stone. Entirely by sight and without
removing the cover of the case in
which it is shown he succeeded in
turning out faithful reproductions OF
the famous little wedding gift. He
now spends much of his time in max
ing these miniatures. Only well sea-
soned and highly selected cherry
stones are used. They are carefully
drilled, followed and threaded. The
mountings, cleverly turned from bits
of whale teeth or ivory, are now fitted
to the cherrystones The spoons are
then cut and formed from thin sheets
of sterling silver and arranged in
groups o. IL dozen to complete a
souvenir which is altogether inexpen-
sive, curious and interesting.
MANY attempts have been made to
initiate these spoons but they
have all proven unsuccessful. The re-
suit in every instance has been a
shabby counterfeit.
During a sojourn in Mexico, in
August, 1903, bought one of these
unique cherrystones in Vera Cruz. 1t
was presumably made by convict in
San Juan de Ulua, but am now con-
vinced that it is one Of the replicas
OF Moses Joy. How this bit of crafts
manship found its way into that for
bidding prison fortress is just another
mystery that may never be solved"
1t was in that same year, 1908, that
Millward found Isabel Belausaran, the
little crippled girl Of Cuarnavaca,
Mexico, later killed during a revolu-
ton. who made the worlds smallest
dolls" Having seen some of her work,
Millward commissioned her to make
him another group. Four of them he
kept: the remainder he presented to
the American Museum in New York.
Without the magnifying glass they
appear as no more than half-inch
spots of color on the white back
ground of their tiny box stages. Under
the glass they reveal faithfulness to
feature. dress and proportion that is
remarkable not even considering their
diminutiveness. Each of the four dolls
represents type of native familiar to
the little dollmaker.
These dolls, incidentally, with their
perfection of detail and cunning
workmanship. were the first of the
long string of miniature objects which
Millward from them on began to
select.
From a mission school in Guate-
mala, he obtained group OF IL
mites Of dolls, also, made of scraps
of silk and little nodded and baked
pinches of clay. Each is about hall
an inch high. There are the figures
of three of the sisters at the mission,
in blue and white, eight minims OF
the primitive market place. selling
their produce. and gay little donkey,
loaded with panniers. Each figure is
differently dressed and laden. each
has different facial features.
Next is group of little baskets,
bowls. vases. cups and saucers. woven
in highly intricate colors and de-
signs. from horsehair. The widest
pannier is but an inch across. and the
little tray with ola and cups anc
saucers together is perhaps an
eighth Of an inch more in diameter.
THERE is display of the famous
miniature pottery of Lupe, also OF
Cuarnavaca-cooking utensils, table
ware and the ubiquitous ola or water
cooler carafe of Mexico-each piece a
tiny thing in perfect turn and color
less than an inch in height. A pair
of the gaudy frogs, famous as made
by Lupe. complete this group.
The worlds smallest altar service
is carved from tagua, or vegetable
ivory" nut whose meat is AS hard
and white as elephants tusk. In a
lie
played four candlestick holders with
candles. censer and stick, chalices AND
other objects sacred to the church
These were carved by an unknown
worker in Ecuador, from whom Mill
ward got them.
Another form Of 'ivory," alligator
teeth, said to be most perfect OF all
is exhibited in a box mounted with
mice that might have lived in Lilliput
Pigeons, crocodiles. armadillos to
match them in size, are all sur
rounded by bracelet of beads carved
in this ivory, the whole not more than
an inch and half across. An old
man of Colombia swamps who did
not know his own name contributed
these figures.
There are a dozen other boxes con-
tanning what is perhaps the most re-
markable exhibit of miniatures in the
lot. These contain series OF So
midget figures, scaling down from an
inch to less than quarter OF an
inch, carved from orange wood. They
are the work of Seora Maria Parada
de Sanchez. 22-year-old girl OF
Bogota, Colombia. entirely untutored.
who lives in a Catholic mission school.
All her life she has been carving
small figures and delicate traceries on
orange wood for picture frames to be
sent to Italy. Without the aid OF a
magnifying glass and using only
splints of broken glass and the points
of needles ground into tiny blades,
she made a total of $50 of these fig
ures for Millward. Two hundred went
to museums over the country.
From a chunk of the raw wood
half carved into one of the little
people, to show how they evolve in
carving from the material, to COM