Show mis s seevers entertains I 1 lions ions I 1 club 11 ith ino 1 ian collection we copy the following from the pent county democrat of los ani ant mas colorado friends here who had the pleas ure ot of seeing the wonderful collection of indian relic owned by mrs 3 glover seevers will be interest ed in the following article from the trinidad chronicle news lore and the handiwork of the american indian a liberal aduca alon in this subject was afforded ed to the members of the lions club to day by seeing and listening the speaker was mr mrs J G seevers wife ot of lion seevers who was the chair man today mrs airs seevers exhibited the largest and most wonderful col cot lection of indian relics arrowheads pottery implements of industry etc that anyone present had ever seen jit vt was a colle collection ethon that had required years of travel and searching to ob tain and mrs seevers knows her indian stuff as the indian knows it himself there were huge boards some measuring five feet or more in length and width and each tilled filled with artistically arranged arrow heads spearheads bows and arrows or what have you indian toma hawks a multitude of relics which were mute evidence of bygone per adds when the various indian nations or tribes were numerous in the choun try with a pointer much like a school teacher instructing a class in some classroom subject mrs Seever fl pointed out the various articles of indian history and explained them she proved to be an excellent speak er and gave the club a lesson in in dian than lore that they have not mt hed heretofore odd quaint and strange looking objects some of them were won darful basketwork in colors of 0 weaving of which only the indiana kaow and have preserved the secret were there displayed crude implements of the wigwam and the mud house ot of vanished generations were there the corn grinding stone she called the matatt and the smaller implement the mano fierce pierce look ing tomahawks ot of stone that would crack a skull like it was an eggshell were among the coll collection petion but torn dom the exhibit were ivere the arrow heads aff A number and brought from all parts 0 of the coun try that has ever been the haunt ot of habitat of the indian mrs seevers did something else beside talk and show her wonderful indian museum she sang a couple of indian songs which were much en joyed the foregoing clipping was sent to us by mr 3 II 11 manderfield 14 the union stock yards ot of salt lake city who la is well known in delta by many friends thanks joe FB AV ater stock bought and sold see IVI A abbott delta arthur bunker was in this week and gave me a long talk on of which he say says ethere there are several varieties the technical name for all being a species of yucca he ile saya says and yant are very close or r in the plant families out of yant Is made mescal the mexican whiskey which will make a person brunker than any moonshine one sniff and your feet tangle for 40 rods one gulp and you d scalp a san to arthur says he has seen dry caves loaded with stores of the win ter supply of mesquite beans and other edibles gathered by the indians indiana in summer for winter use us when cooked looks much like vellatine gel latine jello tinged with a licorice tint and it slightly like sweetened licorice the annual report of the bu du reau of Amr elcan ethnology a pub ll li catlon cation by the smithsonian Smithis onlan tion says yucca baccala tor datil Lili clae lily family zuni indian name ho mapa which means long leaf wide it la Is edible yucca glauda nutt SoaD soapweed weed bili clae illy lily family zuni indian name Is long leaf small it makee makes soap and la Is much used tor for wash ing the hair arthur says they stripped oitt off the wide fibrous bands of the and used them as to bind the t e sheaves of the vineyard ordinary sisal hemp twine he says would last only a year but this band would last sometimes tour four and five years lok up the following words in an unabridged dictionary agave US ed tor for soap maguey in mexico the mord tor for a fermented pulp see pul put quo que mescal a drink made from maguey amole sisal hemp arthur says that ia is the in dian than word vord he thinks and not united St ateser arthur says he 11 bring me a piece of hia his summer and it if he can a blossom or apple alone along about august one little word about corn in europe corn Is used to mean any email small grain in north america it la Is used to mean a cereal graab gram the scientific latin name tor for 0 our r true maize cpin Is zea in L and true maize malze corn Is a naive eal indigenous to america and only in europe after columbus the corn of biblical times Is not our true indian maize corn |