Show ann THE TIC WANING MEANING OF INDIAN DESIGNS I Methods Employed I by Y I the tho Artists A t o of tho 2 Art Is Shown In tho Decoration DecorationS 5 5 S 5 he southwestern barbarian la III nn an anI The I artist Though a n member of ot the tho primeval school chool his bIs talents and accomplishments are oro tar far from fromY fromi Y t It If his hie works are tiro not generally II tr Jrr elated says lIArs the Los Angele Angelea 1 It It Is la because they are not gen genn rally n Jy understood Ono needs but the thee key e ID III t n learn that It contains con loins all the cla ele i rr nh ot of true Irue art arl In It found beauly beau haBu tr ly grace Inee harmony harmon Ideality pathos fitness or 01 In addition to these ti its Hum bizarre the weird and ana the WI Pil Tin TM Tb art of ot the Indian Is le I tr Ir principally In tho decorative H Its I K kl its most mOlt of ot anything nn y In to II r J Js Ja of expressing lilt ids hi esthetic Vu Ills III highest attainment attainment In catlie tl II Pf lon Is II In form torm Ills Hla lottery I It 1 have been heen In III the I Ii it t stiletto of or designs In color clr dr i wr ante have limited him and nd his red rather hive fa Ca tale rate ord the bIzarre rAther than th ll hll and end harmonious h Ft the haP and nJ de cf of baskets ft rd 1 of utensils mid and other artl Arll In stone on I In the decorations upon I in color scheme In these deco b ken In the amt In and na other c I woven ven articles In R rk design And nd construction of bead M In ornamentation of ot wearing waring ap op II r n hi nr It i In iTO rork rock earv In In d l el eli aid work rk In h U elver 11 ns i in shaping of ot ornaments and jewelry ot at other r rr Jilt end and In ln th the cu cutting tu tuf of and other 5 gem Bm f t J j ih the are litO chief tut V expressions ot of the nr or U r tIA nature ot of the L M Ai has ha u I of i the 1111 i in west welt ben been V k t remarked r 1 on one needs the h the R rh art ot of the red rell h man an to hilly fully rull II a b sk kt ii U One ne m Ina m V M w n on olla or lr and Its IT B gr admire In R 1 way Wn I Ir t in It Its odd contour Its lis s P peculiar color deal l th na and turn lurn away tit hi thrill a r N maker slight lIht thrill of oC pleasure L Let t or of thAt t article Interpret Ut th tree of Iho those ise colors pattern s anti and In he hll has e l F urn R II feast east for tor or his hll T r r tv s vex Into Inlo are poems m histories and creeds r tj every Indian and Ini Inu t UPOn every I piece vt tit hn fr r t ell Those curious roH are ara try Ir V g cifor v OU iu a Tho Tim shallo of or n nor or tole k basket 6 lIIs one has hUI I or erb 1 t u It Aal crea t h It wall JI sId ht for the for n I ter for or Sacred u If It for tor toro or what 0 o a sor nr deity nr or n ni to be the tho f repository of ot the i r and an n tt precious clous belongings of oC rr r The its It ItI or thi I i own On ow colors oven tell ale A 1 are very tr r ge ew knee Signify n great deal a hi hI 11 g line nn it It may n halt half circle a gr great r t ll a and nd e land It a road all a II In Ins tithe Then nn an upward upward CUr with 21 I resting rutin three therein therein 11 tell i t Three of ot our ancestors escaped e pett the Hood In ft R big hI canoe and were brought wifely safely tl fel to land Colors have three significations when used tiled In decorations one relating to things one on relative to 10 lime time one of ot di direction redlon In the first relation red means triumph or success IUCCi blue means failure black death white stand elands for t or happiness or pear peace Relative to 10 direr direction lion tion while white stands for or the moat east eai because the sky ky grows glows white In the th east aut at the 1111 rising ot of if the sun lun blue represents represent the west weal because In that direction tilt hlll waters of or the Pacific yellow is II the thea be a of ot the north for tine the ll light ht of et the morning la ii I yellow In III the n Intel wlater time when the sun aun un rises further to the Ille northward red tl signifies the south be because cause that Is II the region of pummel summer and 1011 the red sun un I From thin Ihl Interpretation of color Itis It ItIs Is easy enly to In calculate what whal the time lime fig sig 11 are re White may mar ma stand for tor forthe forthe the morning or for the blue Is I the time of oC the Ih letting getting tUn sun fun or 01 autumn the Ibe season lemon lOn of ot ceru cerulean c rv lean klei yellow la Is I winter the Ihl season lOn lOnor or of the gun tun un or nr moon when the earth oarth I la III flooded with yellow light ll lit redis ml red la is t tb the summer because it Il l the land of n summer Rummer It If is fred a II SHI Barred red color eulor because u It II la III cym m holle of o blood life Ills und sad of or man and the till consequent source of or huts hit and achievement In many tURn ot of the baskets b of ot the red rell or the tho red woman appear geometrical figures figure the production of ot which hl h requires requIre correct enumeration of at the minute or weaves w of ot th the pattern and anI so ao great real are arc ar the varieties of 01 figures figure 1111 or parts of ot figures figure ur each earh 1 re a enumeration and In solving that Ihal onus none but bUI accomplished mathematician perform the work works Otis OUI T Mason curator of the Ih division of ot ethnology In III Inthe the National museum says Bays saysA BaysA A careful study tudy of ut alt all women work In basketry an as well wall 1111 as a weaving anti and embroidery reveals the fact ta t that both loth bothIn lothin In th the woven woren and In hh the sewed ew or coil coll wart ware earn lMh ditch take takes up the tho very ery very seine same area of o surface When women Invented therefore they mail made art Along Ion v with lib this hie rite fact that each stitch oi oa 00 the semo HP mo basket made mads of ot uniform material ma occupies the sum Muni number of millimetre millimetres goes roell th the theother other hit th most mOlt savage ravage women rem count The Indian artist work without pat pattern tern Im model other than ami without rulo rule or The omen lost Ion of the brain la Is brought directly to 10 the place it II is II l to 10 occupy It tint thus I occurs occur that sometimes HI 1111 arise lie which to 10 the artist of would woul l be hI fatal to the th harmony of o hir hl production but which do not nol worry the pupils of at the primitive school an and l which am art productive of ot mme home extreme W If tlc results Quoting again agahi from Mason Inon We IVe would a modern potter to retirement If hula bla hI panels and pictures picture tare re not geometrically ROtU IR Ie lint Hut the ace i seems HIM em to renal rellAh a Im metry She U is I not tint the least lenat t mbarr lamed If Ir with rout four our repetitions of ot the same Bomo group 1 in III n mind she ahe Ands by mid midby by that three puree of oC them thim have hao neon ex X hauled her space lare The quaint man manner manner mannet ner net In which Eh she eke compels the fourth to o squeeze ze Itself Into the allotted croft oron I roo hM been the delight of oC more than on one civilized hock and rock polluting Is Ia Ismore more a n thing of oC the poet past fl et than of the th present All 11 through Ari MI I zona ona J New ew Mexico and some me parts l of at Texas TUBS are aro found rock rook pictures Some of these ore aloe engraved In the rocks and others are painted thereon In some ammo of ot the caverns where the are pro Iro protected protested tested from Crom the elements the tho colors tire ore oreas aa as bright today loday n as when laid on coutu centuries centuries ries ngo AltO Sonic Some of at the rock pictures of ot both bolh th Ihl tha imet pRet and the present are more In bl the theline theline line hue of ot than of oC art They Are historical records of oC localities to show sho trails and the lo 10 location location cation of nf springs Others hOIl more m ore In lu the line of ot historical and re paintings and were vere evidently the creation of oC artistic minds wrought to 10 the creative do de desires sires siren of the I he artist who produced then them War Var seines were eie favorite subjects of or orthe the artist Hunting scene I enta follow next In order and religious sub subjects subjects rank next With some tribes however the Ilse I hI latter subject ranka ranks first Tho The Navajos Navajoa are particularly fond of at picturing their ceremonies and they 1 re e 0 M w I peculiar style tyle of ot art by ll ii J whIch this Ihl is I done la to I what i t h termed dry painting Tim The picture pictures rue rte Ie made In hl by the IIII upon the sans but by Dy b sands tin un tae ground iv Ie i III 5 inu a tau ut u picture Ah th 11 the are ar made with the lilt utmost caie anu l n according to an 11 exact easel system 1110 except u jit In minor punt wh the th mum u a I he I 10 to 11 His DO be tar Ir ai II is I Known toe tae ta Is not our I in w mi any I JUt but spends timely UK upon UllOn n true Ine memory vr uI shore in i hang muni occur in nr the Ihl course of ot time Unno me Toe and nIt li iR Sul mt tin ft noon hann lit the aua 1 and und when u a mistake Is le mao maa made it 1 U I I orl The mud net u is nailed out of ot Inu Inti stand nand lw lit of lit th i Rand 11 nd lilt W the I ne general tt I ground tor ter the work 10 lew loos 1 roan U li art Rw lI tu ui du ings of kind Art as ai lIed to 10 the metals metal has hll It its development with w the or o the Navajo la II exceedingly ex clever cler and he ei a variety of tit ornaments 8 In both bolh sliver and copper which art are ar and unique Hollow uliver Deeds bead by renewing at that point the tha surface toni taut bracelets bracelet brooches earrings 1 lI shame and numerous otter other articles article nr are turned off out Olt and are re n UIt tiled eJ by b members of uC his hi o awn n rite by U otter other trim tribes t with tit whom the Navajos and Uy by II while folks tOlk who greatly lr prize this ills Ihl jewery liel Beal l wont wura li le an Important figure In hI Indian art and ami Inlaying though not common la h I found round and when found ti U seen NII to IH cunningly The Mojave Indians the Utes Vt ani some sent others o manufacture clay chi lays toja to KiM evil Ill to oral to 10 curIo collectors Theia These display art of or n 1 doubtful na its nature ture L ure but UI still art in moot many mill wayn artis artistic l tic plc tI and arll lIo skill are din tl player pluyd by h the Ihl natives nathla of or the Ih wild west western tIIt ern rn country And the art ort of or this peo pd people JIt pie not been ben without It its effect upon the Ih art aft of If cl It would woold be a matter of oC surprise to the oM arid t I make no M doubt If IC It could t lie he e known to whit what wb extent the ins art Rrt of the hut has hit influenced the art of or cl HOlh consciously and un tho the shapes hAltI designs and figures figure of rut the aboriginal artists hate havo hafen been en borrowed and by our ur modern artists until wore were the In dl stereo pieces to la be he withdrawn our VB walla runt halls would show hol ble Jle vacant spaces Certain It Is le that thol Utilization has hall borrowed more moro from tram the h lotion Indian than the Indian from Mr el |