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Show Dixie Pioneer Relics Lauded By State Federal Art Director Utah's Federal Art Director, Elzy J. Bird with Mrs. Bird were guests at the Liberty Hotel Thursday Thurs-day to Sunday, having come to return a large collection of local handcraft relics, which he took with him to Salt Lake City after attending the Dixie college Fine Arts Festival held here last December. De-cember. They were also here to attend the recent music festival. Mr. Bird expressed great satisfaction satis-faction in the wide variety and vast array of articles of pioneer handcraft to be found in Utah's Dixie. These relics, loaned to the project pro-ject by the owners, are taken to Salt Lake City, where they are reproduced in water color or other desirable media by recognized artists, in the exactest detail of color, shape, condition, etc., and these colored plates so made are sent to Washington, D.C. for proper pro-per indexing as to approximate period of manufacture, craftsman if known, brief history and present pre-sent ownership, and the pantings are photographed for the index record. The plates are then available avail-able through the museum for (Continued on page five) Dixie Relics (Continued from first page) loaning to art exhibits throughout through-out the country. . Pioneer Relics On occasion of his previous visit Mr. Bird took back to Salt Lake the loan of several of the locally made Eardley pottery jars and basins, old hand made firedogs, an early Washington Factory blanket, a fine specimen of paper cutting, an early tin wick lamp and other items belonging to the family of Mary F. Jarvis. Returning Return-ing these items on this visit Mr. Bird brought also the colored plates to show the work being done. Those who viewed these plates expressed deep appreciation for the exactness of the copy and for this excellent method of preserving pre-serving the history of pioneer art-craft. art-craft. The articles loaned were returned re-turned in excellent condition. Director Bird has taken back with him this time samples of hair flowers, woolwork, woodcraft, embroidered em-broidered wool flowers, framed samplers, Washington Factory checked tablecloth in red and white wool, early tin tea caddy and candlestick and Eardley pottery, pot-tery, loaned from the. local per-sonel per-sonel collections andincluding the hand work . of Mrs.: Mary'Lawsori Perkins, living pioneer; aged 82, and the late Mrs. Charles W. Seegmiller Seeg-miller Sr. These will be returned early in June when Director Bird hopes to secure another loan of more such tiems to carry on this work. Finds Antique He was happily surprised to find locally preserved one of the J. T. Harwood designed granite cups, the only commercial article designed de-signed by Utah's most famous artist, and stated this was the only one he knew of other than the one locked in Mr. Harvvood's studio in Salt Lake City. The artist, now nearing 80 years of age, is residing in Paris. The cup is in light color and was designed as a souvenir of the L.D.S. Jubilee held in 1897. The rim depicts the pioneer trail across the plains, with ox teams, covered wagons; handcarts and pioneer men, women wo-men and chldren. On one side of the cup is a circle with buffalo and the year .1847, on the opposite side is the Great Seal of the State of Utah with the year 1897. Since Mr. Bird left another of these cups has been located by Miss Mabel Jarvis. |