The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-09-04
Brazilian Girl
Explorer Soups
Jungle Killers
Intrepid Young Woman Goes
Into Wilds to Secure
Subjects for Art.

NEW YORK.-A woman with dark
red hair walked softly in the jungle
Of Paraguay to kill jaguar.
She saw a black spotted body
touched by flare Of sunlight, lifted
her rife, fired-and missed. The
lean cat sprang away, and a hunter
beside her killed it with a single
arrow. VividIy Miss Irene Hamar,
% years old, native of Sac Paofo,
Brazil, daughter Of a Brazilian COT
fee planter, remembers now the
powerful throb of the native hunters
bow, the arc of that arrow.
She remembers the moment when
a hooked tarpon pulled her into the
sea of Cuba, and the instant Of tee
tering balance while she sped down
a ski run on Chilean mountain.
But-those aren't the most excit-
ing moments of her life, she told
Frank K. Kelly, Wide World writer.
The minutes which have set the
deepest excitement in her throat
have come, she declares, in the
sudden emergence of living figures
from hard cut stone, after days of
struggle with sculptor's hammer.
Exhibits Her Art.
Miss Hamar presented recently
the first one-woman exhibition of
Brazilian sculpture ever held in
New York. She has loo major
works to her credit, many of them
created in her studio overlooking
the great harbor of Rio de Janeiro.
Il work 10, IL, or IA hours a day
there, for weeks and MONTHS" she
murmurs. How many hours, how
long it takes, doesn't matter if see
something in the stone"
She has been engaged in sculpture
for II years, beginning as a child
by making plastic Mosques of the
faces of the people she saw around
her.
Its little like wrestling, little
like boxing with some one hidden
from you," she believes. II do not
often make plastic models now. I
attack the stone directly feel the
dust in my face, / see something
taking form, coming alive for me.
That is the best moment of ALL"
Miss Hamar studied in Paris and
travelled through Europe several
years in the middle 1905, learned
to speak French, English, Spanish,
Italian and German in addition to
her native Portuguese.
Likes Those Faces!
1.-The people everywhere have
such fascinating faces" she says.
when / was a child, couldn't help
making Mosques of such wonderful
expressions, such strange heads"
Although her exhibition included
many portraits taken from people
she has known, many of the figures
were cut and hammered to fulfill
the urges of her imagination, to
give shape to what she felt was hid
den in masses of white and rose
marble, Brazilian alabaster, and
bronze!
One of her favorites is a bronze
figure of woman with bowed head,
called "vestal."
An Article Of Distinction.
From the inevitable loneliness of
an artists studio, Miss Hamar turns
often to the sea and to the swift
thrill of skiing in Chile or Argen-
tina. She holds medals for her skill
as ski runner and ski jumper, and
she has caught huge tarpon in the
Atlantic.
''Once / went out with some
friends from Havana, and a tarpon.
pulled me right from the boat" she
recalls. Gas you say it-believe me,
! let him 60. It was not exactly
what you would call an easy game
Of pingpong."
She has made trips up the Amazon
river, visited the villages of the
Bolivian Indians, and explored the
vast jungle of the Matte Crosse
plateau in Paraguay. 1t was in the
jungle near this plateau that she
went on foot with native hunters in.
search of jaguars.