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According to legend, the Navajo Indians learned art from their gods. The gods painted lasting pictures on buckskin, but they told the Navajos to make sand-paintings and destroy them as soon as they were used. Art is magic, the gods explained, and magic for mortals is a sometime thing...
...Chief Me-Gee-See, crowned with a magnificent yellow, red, white and brown headdress, stood red-faced and short of breath in a deafening din of drums, jangling sleighbells and good-will whoops. One by one, the Chippewas stomped and howled past him to bestow gifts - a buckskin vest and a beaded belt (which he put on), a huge bow and quiver of arrows (one got stuck in his headdress and had to be extricated by a helpful squaw), wild rice, maple syrup and cranberries ("to give nourishment to your body to carry on that great battle for justice...
Fidgeting to get back in harness, he celebrated the first sunshiny day of the week by breaking out one of the natty summer outfits he had brought down with him-dark blue shirt with white border, green worsted slacks, white buckskin shoes -and held the only press conference of his vacation. For a full 40 minutes on the flowered lawn of the Little White House, the President posed for the photographers, patiently answered questions, and unburdened himself to the reporters with an ease and informality impossible to attain in his crowded Washington conference room...
...Huntington Library) Cleland's story of the hundreds of other daredevil trappers who opened up the Southwest for U.S. expansion is a tribute to some of history's forgotten men. Equipped with half a dozen five-pound beaver traps, a rifle and a tomahawk, such buckskin-clothed trappers as Antoine Robidoux (who built the first trading post west of the Rockies' main range), Joseph Reddeford Walker (discoverer of Yosemite Valley) and Old Bill Williams stared down danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most of them, the yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival...
...delights his juveniles by chasing, and being chased by, the clown Clarabell, taking pratfalls, and getting squirted in the eye with seltzer water. In his new role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba, and such novelty instruments as the tonette and slide whistle. He can also arrange music and imitate...