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Show REPORT OF THE COJIMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 31 and complete suits for men and wolnen. Tinsmithing, printing, and painting are also shown. Class-room papers, from kindergarten exercises and first attempts in English to geometry, physics, bookkeeping, typewriting, and stenog-raphy differ little from those that would be furnished by xhite schools of similar grade, except for early deficiencies in the use of English and perhaps a rather unusually good average in drawing and penmanship. Anew feature of interest is some excellent "studies" in oil by a youug woman of the Winnebago tribe who is under careful training and gives promise of becoming an artist of unusual ability. The subjects are taken from Indian life. Interesting sets of photographs give interior and exterior views of schools, and sets of floor plans and elevations of buildings now in use show the provisiou which the Government makes for housing its Indiau school children. Fewer schools are represented than in former exhibits, so that the work of each school may be more fully presented. They are: Non-reservation training schools at Genoa, Nebr., Lawrence, Hans. (Haskell Institute), Oarlisle, Pa., and Carson, Nev.; reservation boarding schools as follows: Winnebago in Nebraska, Seger Colony and Riverside (Eiowa) in Oklahoma, Oneida in Wisconsin, Crow Creek in South Dakota, and Hoopa Valley in Oalifor~~j ial so day schools on the Pine Ridge alid Rosebud reservations in South Dakota and among the Mission Indians in California. Under the supervision of Miss Alice 0. Fletcher special attention has been given to the installation of the exhibit. For decorative purposes, and also to differentiate the Indian educational exhibit from those of white schools, specimeqs of native Iudian handicraft have been added-blankets, matting, plaques, baskets, pottery, beadwork, articles cut from red pipestone, etc. Out of theie a corner" has been fash-ioned, and fine color effects have been secured which arrest the atten-tion. The taste and skill displayed iu the workmanship of these articles give unmistakable evidence of the native capacity which is ready to respond to the Govern~ilento ffer of instruction in new avoca-tions. They show the aboriginal soil upon which education sows ilm seeds. EXHIBITION OF INDIANS. During the past year the Department has granted authority for the taking of Indians from their reservations for exhibition purposes, as follows : September 10,1897, to U. L. Timmerman, secretary of the Morton County Fair Assoeiatiou, to secure a reasonable number of Indians from the Standing Rock Reservation, N. Dak., for exhibition purposes at the State fair held at Mandm, I?. Dak. In this case no bond was |
