. Scientific American Volume 79 Number 16 (October 1898) . grand pla-za. It is doubtfulif a more artisticdisplay could bedevised than thatshown in our en-graving. It is onlyanother proof ofthe great successwhich pyrotech-nic art has attain-ed in other engrav-ing represents agroup of five In-dian chiefs. The attractive-ness of the Exposition has been enhanced by theaddition of a new feature. This is the Indian Con-gress, which is organized with a view to assemblingthe representatives of every tribe of Indians on thiscontinent, and that idea inspired the Indian Bureauat Washington to
. Scientific American Volume 79 Number 16 (October 1898) . grand pla-za. It is doubtfulif a more artisticdisplay could bedevised than thatshown in our en-graving. It is onlyanother proof ofthe great successwhich pyrotech-nic art has attain-ed in other engrav-ing represents agroup of five In-dian chiefs. The attractive-ness of the Exposition has been enhanced by theaddition of a new feature. This is the Indian Con-gress, which is organized with a view to assemblingthe representatives of every tribe of Indians on thiscontinent, and that idea inspired the Indian Bureauat Washington to avail itself of this rare chanceto present an ethnological exhibit never before at-tempted, and it is not likely that such a representativecollection of Indians can ever be gathered again. Con- gress appropriated $40,000 for a great Indian encamp-ment at the Transmississippi Exposition. It was en-tirely a case of persuasion, for the Indians were notcoerced into going to Omaha, but, having once reachedthat city, they seemed to understand what the Indian. Photograph by P. A. Rinehart. FIREWORKS, GRAND PLAZA, TRANSMISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION. congress really meant, and are satisfied and agents were instructed to send old men, and, asfar as possible, head men, who would typically rep-resent the old-time Indian, subdued, it is true, butotherwise uninfluenced by the government system ofcivilization. These instructions were faithfully fol-lowed, and as a result the Indian congress is composedof hundreds of the best types of the various of the tribes that are of any interest from an abor- iginal standpoint are represented at the of them have become so civilized, like the Creeks,Choctaws, Oherokees, and Seminoles, that their pres-ence would add little interest from an ethnologicalpoint of view ; so the government did not assemble its most civilized pro-teges at Omaha,but the tribes ithas conqueredwith the greatestamount of blood-shed are the mostimportant
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