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...stand surrounded by lumberyards, saloons, and a dog pound. Protected from these, on the tree-shaded campus, Mother Agatha spends her days. Last week, carpenters and cleaners were getting the campus ready for fall. But Mother Agatha had other matters on her mind. The order was building a new Navaho school, and she had gone to the order's headquarters outside Philadelphia to check up on the far-flung school system she presides over...
...made the sacred objects -and called them santos-never owed allegiance to the U.S. They were the hard handful of caballeros, Navaho slaves, and converted Pueblo Indians (including the fanatical sect of Indian flagellants known as Penitentes) who lived along the headwaters of the Rio Grande in New Mexico. For them, civilization and the cathedral which symbolized it lay in Mexico City, over 1,000 miles to the southeast. When their imported plaster statues crumbled and the oil paintings in their adobe chapels faded away, they created their own rowel-sharp art. It was one of history's best...
Tozzier, on the culture of the primitive people, is considered weak on both material and delivery, and his courses are not recommended. Kluckhohn is better. In 6, on the Navaho, he is very complete and is a first hand authority. Opinions on his course on language vary from distinctly malodorous to one of the best in the University. Ward is a little dull, but his material is interesting and solid...
Associate Professor Clyde Kluckhohn will lecture on his experience among Navaho Indians. The lecture, entitled "Raising Navaho Children" will be given at 8 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...Washington's Smithsonian and Chicago's Field Museum, the Museum of Modern Art's specimens were a mere shop window. But artistically they were the cream of what U. S. and Alaskan Indian craftsmen have produced, from the prehistoric Tennessee mound builders to the present-day Navaho rugmakers and sand-painters. Looking over the assortment, which included such highly skilled items of sculpture and mask work as those shown on the two preceding pages, gallery-goers were inclined to agree that U. S. Indians are far finer artists than they have generally been considered...