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From The ABC of Atoms to Zuni Indians, this catalogue of information required by our editors is mainly historical, biographical, economic and statistical...
America is represented by a fetish jar and club of the Zuni Indians in New Mexico. Such sacred objects are extremely difficult to obtain, since they are still used by many Zuni tribes today...
Educational as well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
...Indians' small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement near Gallup, there strengthen them and bring them back. Three hundred braves trudged into the Zuni pueblos last week, dropped exhausted on the warm earthen floors. As soon as they were informed of the peril of their red-skinned charges, U. S. Indian agents organized rescue parties, made...
Workmen hung an enormous banner in Manhattan's Grand Central Station last week. Thousands of commuters who did not know a Pomo from a Pima, a Hopi from a Zuni, a Choctaw from a Cherokee, now knew that the long heralded exposition of Indian Tribal Arts had opened. The exposition's purpose is not only to show that the untutored mind of Lo! the poor Indian has produced a primitive art of the greatest importance for U. S. painters and designers, but also that among U. S. Indians there still are painters, potters, weavers and silversmiths doing important...