Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1929, Page 7

INDIAN COLLECTION |+ WORK OF 30 YEARS Mrs. Baldwin, Chippewa,? Loans Elaborate Display ‘; to Interior Library. l | l BY GRETCHEN SMITH. In the library of the Indian Service, Department of the Interior Building, | is to be seen a remarkable collection of | Indian articles, representing a variety of handiwork known to the American aborigines. The_collection, which is 2 private one and has been loaned to the Indian Service by its owner, is the re- sult of over 30 years of zealous search- ing and assembling together by an In- dian woman, Mrs. Marie Louise Botti- neau Baldwin, whose mother and father wered both of the Chippewa tribe. Mrs. Baldwin, who s the holder of two degrees of law from the Washing- ton College of Law and now is with the purchase division of Indian Service, de- | temmining fr ght rates for supplies sent to units of Indian services through- out the country, has gathered together her Indian collection with the knowl- edge of a connoisseur. Every item ac- quired by her is genuine, and in many cases was used by relatives, friends or | members of Mrs. Baldwin’s family. A beautifully beaded tobacco pouch of fringed buckskin, showing the floral | designs used exclusively by the cm;;_-‘ pewa Indians, was.used throughout his lifetime by Mrs. Baldwin's father. In| & case close by lies the stone pipe, also used by her father, whose life history was as interesting as is that of his| daughter, Mrs. Baldwin, Next to the | pipe are flint and steel used in lighting | the pipe. The process, as described by | Mrs. Baldwin, seemed almost as simple | FOURFEAREDLOST INPLUNGE OF AR {Auto Backs Into Swollen River—High Water Batks Search for Bodies. By the Assoclated Press. DIXON, Ill, April 15.—Four persons are believed to have been drowned here when their automobile, parked in re- verse gear, backed up when started and plunged into the swollen Rock River yesterday. Two men were known to have been | in the car at the time of the accident, | and two women were seen with the men | shortly before they got in the car. | The men drowned were: Lou Sarver,| 36, driver of the automobile, and Jacob | Boon, 36, while the women are Mrs. Etta Schumaker, 50, and her daughter, | Mrs. Nora McPherson, 24. | Police and river men were searching for the bodles, but the flooded condition | of the stream balked their efforts. The scene of the accident was near | the place where two bridge workers| weer drowned last week. PN——S——SS Mrs. Baldwin has a slight strain of French, being the granddaughter of Pierre Bottineau, one of the most fa- mous scouts of the great Northwest and an important guide of the famous Lewis-Clark expedition. Mrs, Baldwin told with enthusiasm of | | her first flight in an airplane from a | | local flying field last Sunday. | “I have traveled in practically every conveyance known to this country,” she | | eaid. | | 7“I have traveled by ‘travois’ which | Upper: The rebels, during battle at Nace, Somora, April 6, pressed into went into effect have been uncovered. Many permits have bca‘ legitimate developers and * Govern- . | ment has received' millions: 8¢ dollars itk | royalty from their efforts, ~But since | the passage of the general leasing law | | nine years ago the department has had | thousands pplications for prospect- | ing permits in territory where Govern-, | ment officials have found no visible . 2 vid b i Interior Department ~ Says| | Thes -}','Sfie’.'uo“;,':‘.‘,‘.f‘ifni’,'.‘x na - | nope that :%T']T:d l:n lm i lnl i Law Has Been Used to Pro- | s for", s and might eventually be mote “Wildcat” Schemes. | s, | | Mrs. Belle Scott Dies. i | acnuired by | T e By the Associated Press. | OTTAWA, April 15 (®).—Mrs. Belle | The general oll land leasing law was| Warner Botsford Seott, violinist, died | said today in an Interior Department | Vesterday after a brief iliness. She was | :nx;x;n;nmt :n have been used by |the wife of Dr. Duncan Campbell Scott. | pulous persons and asso- | 5 | ciations for their own special benefit | CcPuY Superintendent general of Indian | and to the detriment of those induced | 2fT2irs for Canada. She was born in to enter into their schemes. Boston, Mass. | 'Some of the schemes, it was said. violated the general laws against fraud | | rather than the public land laws and in! | many cases improper use of the mails | INSURANCE had been found. The statement added ALL BRANCHES { that of the 34,000 oil prospecting per- L ; | mits that: have: heen Erevisd oub 66 @n Fise, Antemahiles N leases have been issued, Accident, The department’s files are filling , Burglary gradually with letters from persons who SAS M. Le Roy Goff have paid into “wildcatting” organiza- (007757525 | tions funds they cannot recover.” Since || EEDRED) Woedward Bids. President Hoover’s oil conservation pro. GG IGGRGRGRTE %| Tae HecaTt Co. g"s? F Street at 7th )3 < ; The e as the cigarette lighter of modern times. ‘ .’ Only Old Women Smoke. Relative to the smoking articles in her collection, Mrs. Baldwin was asked if the women of her tribe smoked 25| ‘well as the men. | “Only the old women,” she replied. | “Several years ago,” she smiled, "I re- | 3 turned to visit my old home, and & silk embroidery, friend of my father told me he would | ters, is represented by a cleverly em- like to call on me and smoke the pipe | broidered handbag made from a goose of peace with me. I laughed and told | bladder embroidered in silk. | was the Indian way of hitching two| gervice three tanks, im; ( 2 . 3 provised from agricultural tractors. Severe fighting took | poles with rawhide strips between to an | piace at Naco, and the dropping of several bombs on the American side lfy the v& Coenen was | 57 68 Worsted-tex | Indian pony or oxen. I also traveled in i S ‘l. ‘prairie schooner in 1874 {rom ane_\’rebels resulted in United States troops and fiyers being rushed to the border. apolis to what is now Red Lake Falls, Lower: Al Cocnen, aviation mechanic, capturéd by Mexican rebels as they retreated from Juarez and taken along to repair broken planes. —— | Minn. 3 A at El vii |74 oaveiea by canoe from T'mbm"-i:lo‘;::;i ::r'::l.e:'::!nlg:rd Airlines at El Paso and has a wife and two children | N. Dak., to Winnipeg, Canada, and back = 29 D 2% MRS, MARIE LOUISE BOTTINEAU BALDWIN. | her people began to be substituted by |apolis, where she attended school for taught by French sis-|some time. After that she and a sister J to Breckenridge, Minn. were sent to Winnipeg, Canada, where | “And now I can say I have traveled they entered as students in St. John's |by airplane, and I find it is wonderful. School-Ladies’ College. Some day I hope to cross the country In addition to her Indian ancestry by airplane.” b a former University of Illinois foot ball star, will be married April 27 to Miss (#) —Garland | Eleanor Marle Kauer. “Red” Grange d,” and himself ' will be best man. Grange's Brother Will Wed. CHICAGO, April 15 Grange, brother of him that I did not smoke. ‘But; he| Of particular interest also are & num- ber of “mokuks,” or containers, made of birch bark, for catching the sap of maple trees. More eclaborate ones were used to hold the sugar or to give away to friends as presents.' War bonnets, Indian arrows, beaded shirts, pottery and baskpts of many tribes and many patterns are to be |found in this collection, gathered to- | gether |in the country. Mrs. Baldwin, who first traveled forth from her father's wigwam as a tiny | papoose strapped to her mother's back, | has devoted a long and useful life to |the service of her race. Born in a | tiny cabin on the North Dakota side of the Red River, she first learned to know and love the fine people who composed her father’s tribe on the reservation where they lived a nomadic life. In later years she was taken to Minne- sald, ‘you smoke cigarettes, don’t you?’ “Again,” said Mrs. Baldwin, T told him,that T did not smoke, because only old.women smoked and I did not con- sider myself old enough that that. In the case with the pipe and the pleces of steel lies an old turnip, with- ered and dried with time. It is not likely to attract the interest of the passerby. “That turnip,” explained its collector, “is perhaps the omdy one to be found in any Indian collection. It has been in my family as long as I can remem- ber. It is the kind of turnip which was grown by the Indians of North Dakota and Minnesota, and was ground and made into flour by them.” Spoons of Buffalo Horn. Spoons of buffalo horn, exquisitely beaded leggins and the beaded leggins and moccasins used by the Comanche Indians are included in the case con- taining the smoking outfit of Mrs, Bald- win’s father. At the other end of the room is a| case containing several very fine game bags, showing the floral designs peculiar to her tribe. “Instead of the square and conven- tlonal designs used by most Indian tribes, the Chippewa followed the de- signs of nature,” explained Mrs. Bald- win, “and copied flowers, trees Or leaves.” One of the game bags was given to Mrs. Baldwin by an old woman on the Chippewa reservation. Two other very fine ones were given by relatives. Re- garding the last two a humorous story was related. “A cousin owned these two bags,” sald Mrs. Baldwin. “He was very anxious to | ve me one for my collection, but said was afraid to do so, as his wife “would have a fit” jf he did. —But never mind,’ he told me. ‘I will put one aside some day when she will not miss it, and then -give it to you.’ “A few days later,” continued Mrs. Baldwin, “I was talking to his wife. T/ should love to give you one of these begs,’ said the wife, ‘but if I did Gus would have a fit. But never mind. Some day I will put one aside when he | cannot miss it, and I will then'give it to | you.” | Got Both Bags. “Shortly afterward,” laughed Ms. Baldwin, “both Gus and his wife sent me a game bag, and to the day of their deaths neither knew that the other had given me a bag. In that way I ac- quired two of the finest bags in my collection.” An outstanding item of the collec-| tion is an elaborately headed horse| blanket. 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