Show H r rI ri I I IW i i Mu II I I i r itI I j i t tI M Mi L PHOTOGRAPHIC ER EPIC C OF ILAC I 7 I 1 I I II n nl eI l J Ja a 1 If Iff i iI I 3 f 1 I Mi Mif Ii t j t t t I 1 qI 1 w i t 1 I t J f Pi t lit i i iY Ji Y p ri I I IF i 1 F f r ra r a V 9 j s st I f J v 1 1 Jt Ji j jI 1 4 rt iI I 1 U i r t ra Ji L LII 11 II i if h M Mr MH I I In n f 1 f I In n t r I I J I JI Ll J I ILl H ll r h ih i I Ir Ir r r r J I If f I I i TI Vrr I te floor fra L Lf st f c J CH te coF coI co don Aon arc nrc tC dl ti tiTS t TS 4 i random The one above aDov shown shove Zah Zahi 1 an Apache maIden To Yb th tha I r l f t I i right glet of It Is a Mok man weaving a 1 e 1 R Rf hawl a certain number of which f must be completed by tle tie young i b i 4 keen ben before they aro arc eligible for me Ine Iner roes r ii i I t Below Is Num peano at 11 1 t r work ork on some somo water bottles Nit Num d f ti t i Pogno Is one of the moat celebrated I I J otters of the HopI Hopp tribe a tribe i 1 known wherever Indian pottery Is i t i known for the beauty of Its designs de j jj iI j j I a Indian pictures as no artist has lias ever e r rt j t io F t Imagined them are those thos which aro to toe toI I 1 e exhibited in tIlls this city next ne t week by i 1 L J i Miss lIss Henrietta of ot Seattle scuttle I IThe The iThe collection of uC pictures picture which JIM ills J I Hamilton has in hi her is one D i J I absolutely unique Inasmuch as ns n It t has hns hasI 1 I f no DO duplicate on the fare face of ot the earth c r j ej I It consists of ot the work wok with tho the cam cams camI j I e fera Un of Edwerd S 9 corti a t man who s Y f has spent the ilia better part rt of ot hi ht fe re In Ina InI I i a i photographic study stud of ot tho American a Indian and IUd his environment These pictures show as aA no brush blush I jt could pouM show the Intimate personal lire life ii II v pf Qt the various tribes who are In ln a Ii IiI ai i I j greater or less degree living in what tt may rray be called culled a primitive condition I 1 They represent the work of ot the man manfor manfor l t for the past fifteen years and show i types tn es from all the tribes which are to today tot today day not absorbed by the rapidly ap approaching a t 1 J 1 1 civilization of the age ager r JI I The pictures are ore but the photographic i II ork of ot Mr Curtis book The North orth t American Indian a work which will comprise twenty volumes the first two 1 Ii of Df which will be published next sum summer summer 1 mer Seven years tears ears more time will be bet beI t I Ji j required in which to complete the work I t I when completed will be the I most complete study of the Indian as ashe ashe jr I he is which has ever been written and 1 II 1 4 naturally when one considers chang changing i i I 1 dug ing conditions which can ever eyer be writ written writa J 1 a ten tenil I il Won Their Hearts i iiii j The text which will wilt accompany the 1 pictures Picture II has been bee n written just as they the Y I I r have bave been taken in the environment I z Which alone alon can give Jt it and andI I I soundness Mr Curtis has made his y i 4 E home b ome with W lib the Indians ns in their various i 1 tribes for tor the past fifteen years eaps and andS andy y his personality his evident sincer I 1 t t j Sy ty y and his hia real love for lor them m as a aI I I S r people has lias won their ther hearts and more moret I i 4 t wonderful I still sUlt glimpses into their i k ki kr t i y n i j I r strange mental end spiritual life lite from frem Whose whoso Innermost all white men menar Are ar forever barred b He has hM written of thorn them In the lan language language guage of ot Nature herself f and aud has done his writing by their own or beside their own shrines And added to the difficulty he has hils overcome in thus getting into their very lives hRs baa been the difficulty In obtaining knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge of ot their customs many of ot which are even today passing away so that only the oldest chiefs have hae knowledge of ot the rites observed even within the memory of the present generation The change in the Indian life hast hastened hastened hastened ened as it has been by encroaching cv civilization is rapid Much ruch of ot the ma material material collected In the past fifteen f teen years cannot now be duplicated ted Be Before B Before fore tore the ink Is dry on the last volume of ot the proposed pro series the primitive Indian life will be almost a thing of the past Pat and In twenty years from now the Indian as an Indian will wilt have passed from bom the face tace of the earth The Vanishing Race One of ot the pictures in the collection which Miss has on hand de depicts depicts depicts this passing more strongly even than words can tell It It is an evening scene and amid the gathering twilight the camping party arty Is passing before the artist on the th trail Only the fhe back of ot the riders and ald the ponies Is seen s seen en but the movement has been caught in such wonderful manner the feeling feen is so evident and the whole so filled fined with life and thought that the be beholder beholder holder can read it without the name transcribed below belo The Vanishing Race Rate No brush could ever eer catch the feeling f lIng which the camera has given in tuft full Other pictures equally wonderful Jn in their heir execution and even more ful tul In themselves are found In which the various types s of 0 different dUrer nt ages are given glen The childhood the youth the manhood and the old age of ot each tribe is shown in a variety of ways and with these types is preserved the wonderful atmosphere of the camp life Ife the desert or the mountains in which h the tribe is isto Isto isto to be found Sweeping In Scope cope The work which is now absorbing the attention of o Mr Curtis will be of such value alue that only comparatively comp r few will willever willever ever possess the set It Is Is easy casy to believe be believe lieve that after aner a few fete years they will willbe willbe willbe be in reality priceless treasures tre as the Hie thelast last record rec of the race of noble red men Mr Curtis began the work of photo photographing photographing rl graphing them for tor his own pleasure and this work vork has grown now t h be a study of If the primitive races races race of ot the west nest westmore westmore more complete and more Intimate than any ever attempted before It will be confined to no particular part of the west b take in the various tribes from the Eskimo of the north to the Pueblos Pu blos of the far south lOuth The first volume will be devoted to the th Apaches Ap ches and Navajos both of the same stock and origin and both through relation relationship relationshIp relationship ship and environment quito quite similar in culture Later volumes will wUl deal with and Yuman Tuman tribes the various tribes of the plains and the th people of the western coast Customs and W Worship The customs and strange worship of these wonderful people will be e shown to differ as widely as do the of the whites g and even ld distinctive types will wilt be seen b by the accuracy of the camera to be as 88 widely differentiated dated as as are the tile types of the nations There Is ts absolutely abi no evi evl evidence dence Bence of posing O ing whatever w On 90 the thee con contrary conteen teen every picture ture shows shoes the natural habit of 0 the subject and a d his hie natural grace as it was spoken S ken ot of t by Cooper himself elf different fro frost t the grace e e et the elt 4 pe p awl and a ld much Rueh more en Tea strange and are are meted efI as ass netting but belt 1 the th ea serf rJ show Meow K th n end the myths ate and from which they y take t their shear are given in as as much 0 r S tulln fullness fI as a is consistent with treatment of tho the subject Religion of the Indian In connection l h the hatter t aU r of f their religion Mr Curtis says sa There There were no savages In North America Amerl a even at the time that Columbus land landed landed landed ed as they the all had a religion r notwithstanding standing the statements statement to the contrary con contrary contrat trat made m de by the early explorers and the priests The explorer did J riot ot lu luand and the priest said he had no God ue ue cause caus the Indians belief and form orm of worship v did not correspond the priestly creed Iven en today todar through pure p te obstinacy men who have been in int touch t uch with w th certain tribes trib for years ears will tell you that they ha hate e no religion io no 10 gods 5 no rio belief belle in the hereafter As a r of or fact fad the religious cremo pies JIlts adV adt to by b these peoples are SO i ii elaborate that had these men three lifetimes they could not master m ster the dIe In Indians Indians rites in their ramifications ramifIcatIon Aid modern history knows g no n tribe so 80 lack lackIng lackIng lacking Ing In n that they the rad no nJ arts arta Even the Digger Indians who were ere the lowest t of ot all tribes made marle baskets that th t are artistic crea j i the most priceless and valued as the finest t basketry of or the primitive In Indians Indians I For several seasons now these won wonderful wonderful pictures have been bee n exhibited ted all allover allover I over Oer the east cast where of course they create leale even more of ot a sensation than in int t the Ithe west est The purpose of or the present i exhibit is to io arouse a more mor widespread interest throughout the west In this j I wonderful won erful work which Is destined to be bei i i one of ot the lasting monuments to the i departing race The pictures will be beI I exhibited Wednesday at the Kenyon 1 hotel t |