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Show WHERE THE NUDE IS NATURAL. , h Hopl Indians Have Little lUse for'; Clothing In Their Villages. I. When living by themselves under j perfectly natural conditions, ns I found ; thorn 15 years ago, nearly all tho Hopl , children ran about entlroly nude, nnd J the adults were as unconscious of the i need of clothing or of tho lack ot It j as were Adam and Eve prior to tho aDnlo episode. The urcBence . and i teachlngsot the white man have of i late years Induced a certain measure , ot self-consciousness, so that all ex- ' cept the very llttlo children are chary i of allowing themsolves to bo seen un- clothed by strange eyes, but I lived , to long among vthem and gained their ' confidence to such an extent that 1 was able o photograph them as if from the viewpoint of one of them- ' selves and bo to gain a record, which , to anthropologists should provo very Interesting, of tho tact that these people peo-ple aro physically at an earlier stage of development than tho whlto race, says a writer in tho Craftsman. Although, If you have lived long enough among tho Hopl for them to fcol thoroughly acquainted and at homo with you, they may sometimes go around without clothing as comfortably com-fortably and unconsciously as with It you feel no scnBQ of shock as at the sight of nakedness, for your experience experi-ence is precisely like that recorded by the explorers and travelers In Africa and among all dark-skinned rnces it Is not the lack of clothing but the sight of tho white skin that Is startling. start-ling. A brown skin seems In a way to be a sort of clothing like the fur ot an animal and excites no more attention, at-tention, after once you are used to seeing it undraped. You note only, the extreme beauty ot color, form and movement and after awhile begin to reallzo something of the innocence, freedom and childlike joy of living that we like to think prevailed among all men In the morning of the world. At babies and little children are bo seldom troubled with garments of any description, they are early Inured to all changes of temperature and remain re-main unaffected by chill winds, soaking soak-ing rain and the scorching desert sun. Also, they have the same freedom In the use of every muscle as little animals, and, they can climb almost anywhere and balance themselves in I moBt precarious positions with no moro danger than as It they were panther kittens. |