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...workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent in six bottle paintings, which he made by patiently poking bits of colored sand into place in old whiskey bottles with the aid of a hatpin. Experts pronounced Sugden's sand paintings equal to the best of their kind produced by the Hopi Indians of the southwest U. S. Farmer Sugden was not at the show. A man of rural tastes, he farms the land he was brought up on, expects to die on it, has not visited Madison, or any other city, in 20 years...
...exhibit of original paintings of Hopi Indian ceremonial dances, by Edwin Earle, of New York City, will be on view at the Peabody Museum until June 1. While doing the paintings, Earle lived for over a year in the Hopi village of Oraibi, participating in the activities of the natives...
Even in small U. S. towns where ten years ago anything approaching an esthetic gesture would rouse the citizenry to barbaric yawps, dancing is a form of art now highly regarded, whether provided by the Ballet Russe or the Hopi Indians. In Manhattan this week the newly cosmopolitan art of the dance was honored in an ambitious exhibition of no less than 1,304 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, masks, dolls and costumes drawn from dancing in most of the nations of the world. It was the opening event in a no less ambitious festival called "Dance International," designed to keep...
...fiction. Of this fiction the work of Oliver La Farge, notably his Pulitzer Prize-winning Laughing Boy, has stood out as the best, marked by accurate observation, sensitive understanding of the complex Indian psychology, a respect for their cultural dignity. Anthropologist turned writer, an official advisor to the Hopi, a director of the National Association on Indian Affairs, Oliver La Farge has made himself an Indian spokesman in Washington as well as in fiction...