The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1902, Page 9

-~ HERE s sometning new In the line of enterta Perhaps yo thought that every- ing under the sun had been ex- ed between the time when our grandmothers attended quilting bees end the time when their granddaughters began bridge whist. But the Indian flesta makes bridge whist and rummage sales back numbers, and besides be- t gives the best 1d of a good n of New York inated the fiesta e followed in her the thing is now a fad, but in spending as and thought, the on decorations and equently Mrs. Good- out as the model to be it is worth while trving to either for raising money or for a footsteps untf and money ant of all Zunt w all ur own fireside— me. at ¥ a, isn't one, efther. What ' and carried e. Mrs. Goodwin sent In swagger style. The savage red, with a por- » Bear on one cover and a » on the other. The “bid™” TO NAVAJO INDIAN moon >m- teps in t of Ces of Mr. , who will of their own s. When the re will be much ral and give ted to witness the er than nine of ¢ white man’s clock, when the Pellicana with the k beard, called “Big Bear,” Wharton James, will people, both men and « ine Klish,” the Snake rwise George H. Pepper, from Museum of Natural His- be present. be a Navajo Indian wed- @ing, equaw dance, Zun! love songs, sambling games and a reproduction of & celebrated powwow (at which will be ! 2 " =1 r not from | N e Wmmmmmmk \ A esent noted Indians from other tribes), scientifically authentic; ceremonial songs and dances by real Iroquois, Black- foot and Onondaga Indians. Your scalp be upon your own head if you fail to appear. R ) On the following page appear the in- vitation and programme rendered in plc- tographs for the uninitiated, and a key follows for the enlightenment of the many. Thirty-five of the guests prepared to take part in the programme. They were turned, for the time, into bucks and squaws, and their costuming was elabo- rate. Women sacrificed pompadours and curls to wear the straight dangling locks of the squaw; men painted their faces, bui were Lot willing to part with be- loved mustaches, which fact caused the known by it during the evenin, only fiaw in the make-up. Each of these the printed programme. performers took an Indian name and was Miss ¢ Collins was Tom-ah-no-tah, or g and on Nightingale; Mrs. Sammis was Ha-ta-les For instance, Na-tloy, or Smiling Chanter. Besides thes: make-believe bucks and v / { i NAVAJO “BREAD, A SQUAW DANCE, ZUNI LOVE SONGS AND & FIRST- fitted with seats like an amphitheater for 100 guests, Across the end of the studio and facing the street was the Hogan, or house of the Indlan, hung with the brilliant Navajo blankets in bright- est red, black and yellow. At the doors were the water bottles, the pappoose bas- kets, the weapons and the implements used {n dally lifs. Everything used for house decoration as well as the dresses and jewelry worn once belonged to the Indians of the Southwest. After an explanatory talk by Professor James the real Indians opened the en- tertainment with Incantations of the medicine man, the announcement of the death of a chief and the election of a new chief. Then began that part of the programme which was rendered by the amateur In- dlans. A real Indlan song had been learned by Mr. Sammis and was sung with the strange walling tones that are peculiar to Indian music. It took much Ppractice to accomplish this, but the result was 80 successful that the real Indians beamed with delight at the realism. That most touching little attention of the mother-in-law to the future son was reproduced—the ceremony In which the old lady shampoos the youth with cal-a-wash, He had to endure being very well ducked, for the amateur mother-in-law had no mercy upon him. 3—Oshll.....co0eeessc. Attention! (All look into the same eye.) 2—Nockee....... Bquaws there were five bona-fide Indians 3—Tah... present, members.of the Blackfoot and ¢—Tee..... Iroquois tribes, who came to help out the 5—Eshlah. festivitles and give “atmosphere.”” Pro- 6—Estah fessor James and Mr. Pepper, students 7—Soset. of Indlan lore, assisted in cawying out 5—Say-pes .There will be a feas To Bucksand Squaw the ceremonies accurately. The whole $—Nosh-tls.....s....Plenty of meat and performance had been carefully studied corn. and rehearsed for weeks before the af-10—Nisnah. Plenty of drink. fair came off. 11—Sla-zatah. -Afterward. Mrs. Goodwin hunted up old historiesi?—Nockee-zatah and legends. She kept to accuracy ini3—Tah-satah.. every detall of costumes, ceremonies andlé—Tee-zatah.... decoration. The studio, which occuples ibe entire upper floor of her home, was .You will be welcome, .To the ceremonies. «..Man with black beard called Big Bear will ®ve talk to both . CLASS POWWOW AT YOUR OWN FIRESIDE. The wedding was a solemn ceremony in which the bride and groom had maay mystical words sald over their heads while they squatted upon a rug. The bride ‘wore marvelous strings of beads, but the groom’s costume was less elaborate, his trousers being cut from American flour sacks according to a popular fashion of the more or less Americanized Indlan of to-day. The squaw dance was a splend!d affalr, in which all the squaws and bucks joined. It was entered into with no less enthusi- asm by the white dancers than by the real Indians, who taught the steps and figures. The red man's musical instruments fur- nished musio and thers was & grand clashing of savage noise. The shouts and ‘walls that accompanied the dance rose louder and louder as it progressed, and it ‘Was not ended until every man and wo- man was out of breath and too exhausted to dance another step. ‘The squaws’ gambling was excitedly fol. lowed by a ring of watchers who gathered around the mat wherson the game was played. Stones of different sizes wers ar- ranged on the mat, following its pattern. The game was simple, but the stakes heavy, for valuable strings of beads and embroideries passed from hand toshand, The bucks swapped wives with greal Tealism, bargaining cannily and seizing their new possessions with great delight. The wives played thefr role with trus In- dian stolcism, seemingly well satisfled with the transaction. The pow-wow was carefully carried out, belng an authentic representation of one s it really happened. Many Indians wers present. Mr. Goodwin himself took the part of the Commissioner, The wind-up of the affalr was a wild dance, supposed to be In thanksgiving, and a wonderful feast which was brought all the way to New York from Arizona, Chim-a-wola, or Navajo tea, was thers, and pinon nuts and Indlan bread made by & Navajo woman who lives forty miles from a raflroad station on the desert of Arizona. A Navajo woman walted on the guests, who sat about in true Indian fashion on the sanded floor. It was a splendid feast from an Indian point’ of view, and if any of the ruests made for their own pantries upon reach- ing home, then the blame was to be lald only to their civilized appetites, spolled by many generations of pate-de-fole-gras training. ——— In Adams County, Indiana, thers live several thousand members of the Amish church, who are refusina %o mev thetr taxes on religious groun®s, They abso- lutely refuse to make oath to any state- ment, and o far have declined fo swear to the tax lists after making them out. The population of the Isle of Pines is 8199, composed of 209 Cubans, 195 Span- fards and 14 others. Their citizenship s classified as 2818 Cubans, 32 Spaniards, 334 in suspense and 15 allens. OWWHMO Koy %o the Letter of Tnvitation. men and women, Indian lover singing and courtin Indian wedding. n Squaw Sing- 15—Eslatah.. 16—Estatah... 17—Sosee-zatah. 13—Say-pee-zatah... Nisna-zatah.. (between U. 8. Com- missioner and Naw ajo Indtans), 20—Notteen. ...... 12—Notteen Nockes..Take & rest, B—Nottesn Tul......Dream ever B 7