. International studio. in the tentative stage,hardly yet formulated, still in the realm of dis-cussion, was the idea of descent through themother, and the ownership of all houses by thetownship. Imagine my astonishment to find thatthese two advanced views were long ago putinto practise by the Hopi Indians. A vacant place awaits the Navajo Young and his companion should be ableto take degrees in Indian customs and Navajo expedition was Mahonri Youngsthird visit to the Indian haunts of Arizona. In1912 he made his first journey to make studies fora Hopi Indian group whi
. International studio. in the tentative stage,hardly yet formulated, still in the realm of dis-cussion, was the idea of descent through themother, and the ownership of all houses by thetownship. Imagine my astonishment to find thatthese two advanced views were long ago putinto practise by the Hopi Indians. A vacant place awaits the Navajo Young and his companion should be ableto take degrees in Indian customs and Navajo expedition was Mahonri Youngsthird visit to the Indian haunts of Arizona. In1912 he made his first journey to make studies fora Hopi Indian group which was completed inabout two years time. The two palefaces werethen commissioned to do the Apache group whichwas completed in the spring of 1917. TheNavajo group will be completed in about twoyears. The reader will find accompanying this dis-course a few of Mahonri Youngs drawings of theNavajo Indians. A glance at them shows theartists extraordinary instinct for suggestingatmospheric actuality. He draws the bird on the. KOlk NAVAJO SERIES wing, as it were; hequick movement oftheir ways. Thesenothing, but wouldrange of drawings,I saw them in Paulthe inspiration of DRAWN BY MAHONRI YOUNG seizes, or snatches rather, thethese nomads, their look andfew drawings are better thanthat the reader could see thesome flushed with colour, asDoughertys studio and underhis enthusiasm. Here I say The Hcani Sale is a man who kindles before the actual tiling;who can give the kick of a horse, the frolic of agoat, the swing of a blanket-garbed woman, thestride of a squaw, the gesture of an Indian at onewith his horse, the he of the land, the scurry ofclouds, the sway of a tree in the wind, the wander-ing herd, the bigness of this country, where youcan see for ninety miles. In a word, he is theartist of the actual, of movement, of adventure;he is the man to give the spirit of the appallingrestlessness of the Western front. Over therehe might find his lifes work as Nevinson did. I saw no reason to ch
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