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Show tion in the distinctive blanket weaving of this tribe. Elsewhere the pottery industry, as practised among the various pueblo groups, has received such encouragement .as the Office could extend to it; this has been on the condition that the new generation should be trained in the clever handiwork of the elders, but with such improvements in the clay mixtures and the surface treatment as would result i11 a stronger mechanical product without any diminution of its artistic beauty or individuality. Back of the manual dexterity involved in the weaving and the molding, however, lies the maintenance of the native art ideals in decoration; and I seized promptly the opportu. nity offered by a vacancy in the art. instructorship at Carlisle School to extend our educational work in that direction. Miss Angel De Cora, a Winnebago and anartist by profession, was appointed to the vacant chair, in order that the new movement might receive its first real impulse from a hand at once skilful and sympathetic. It is my desire that the pupils who study any kind of decorative work shall be encouraged and led to employ Indian combinations of line. and color, and that the products of the school shops, as far as they lend them-selves properly to ornamentation, shall show the characteristic Indian t.ouch as distinguished from the Caucasian designs which pervade the same branches of industry elsewhere. Miss De Cora entered upon her duties as teacher of native Indian art on the 1st of February, 1906. In the short time she has been at. n-ork she has devoted herself more to drawing out what is already in her pupils than to any independent constructive program. In a I report made at about the close of the school pear she said: When I first introduced the subject-Indian art-to the Oarlisle Indian stu-dents, I experienced a discouraging sensation that I wns addressing members of an alien race. I realized that I must, have an Indian audience if the subject was to continue. For a week, when each new class came to me, I appealed to their race pl.ide, calling on them in mass and individually for Indian history, not as the white historian has pictured it in words, but as some of u¶ have heard it from the Indian story-tellers by the light of the camp fire; hut there are those who have lost all their Indian lore and yet retain the characteristic traits of the race. To these I gave the advice to observe the few specimens of Indian work that were at hand. The reports of the Bureau of Ethnology hare served to call our minds back to old customs and lore, and in this short lime these Indians' decorative instinct is greatly roused. As the Indian art ivns in purely conventional lines,I hare been obliged to make this a school of desiga In a hurried review of Indian art, I noted three distinct styles of Indian designing-the Alaskan, the Southwestern, and the Plains Indian. The stU-dents represent nearly the whole country in Indian tribes, so I attempted at first to get the different tribal styles of decoration. The Alaskans failed me in this effort. In their case it is the forgotten lore and all that goes to inspire the natire decorative instinct. The Pueblos of the Southwest still retain their native art, and it is from them that I have got some of the best designs. The Plains Indians have done some good work, but are timid as yet. The Eastern Indians, who have long since |