Word: totem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven foot totem pole effigy of Atlao, nicknamed "King Siwash," nineteenth century chief of the Ahousat Indian Tribe, located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, was placed on public view Saturday in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University...
...principal outside jobs filled were those of waiters, window-washers, snow shovelers, clerks, tutors, entertainers, and chore workers. Within the University, much work has been done in the various buildings, in the way of repairs and new construction. In the Peabody Museum at present, a student is repairing a totem pole, others are mending ancient skeletons, and cementing excavated fragments of pottery...
...Prof. William Gardner Hale, first director of the American Academy in Rome, he decorated many mansions in Europe and the U. S. in true fresco in the early Italian manner, was best known for his murals in Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., Manhattan Cloud Club. He also carved totem poles...
...opening day reporters, greeting each other with soft cries of "Ugh! Ugh!" and "How!", tiptoed among celebrities to look at painted jars, baskets, totem poles, Navajo rugs, blankets, silver bracelets, earrings, belt buckles, turquoise necklaces, beaded quivers. Art critics were most interested in two small galleries where hung water color sketches showing ceremonial dances and hunting scenes by living Indian painters. All were in the native tradition, with brilliant color, splendid sense of design, for the most part excellently drawn. Among the best painters: Fred Kabotie, a smiling Hopi, and straight-nosed Ma Pe Wi, from the Rio Grande...