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Chicago Tribune 4/26

INDIAN GIRLS' WORK.

ARTICLES MADE AT THE SCHOOL AT
CARLISLE EXHIBITED.

The Products of the Brightest of the Students
Aid to the Display of the Institution--
Dresses Which Show the Most
Careful Handling and Artistic Taste--
Embroidery and Paintings Done by the
Descendants of the Aborigines--Those
Who Have Made Remarkable Pieces.

While the Indians in the Wild West show
are arranging their tepees to their perfect satisfaction
and bestowing occasional "Hows"
on talkative visitors there is being prepared
in the gallery of the Manufactures and Liberal
Arts Building an exhibit which, although it
is the work of their people, is of a totally different
character. This is the display of the
Indian School of Carlisie, Pa. It is naturally
varied in character, ranging all the
way from the printed rules of the school
to the articles made by the pupils.

To most visitors it is the handicrafts section
that will prove of greatest interest, and if
they chance to be women they will of course
turn from the cases where harnesses and
shoes made by the boys are displayed to
those where all manner of feminine trifles
are placed together with the photographs of
the Indian girls whose work they are.

The most ambitious articles in the exhibit
of woman's work are two dresses displayed on
the somewhat angular figures of two sweetly
smiling wooden women. One of these was
made by Delia Randall, a 20-year-old girl of
the Bannock tribe, the other by Nellie Fremont,
who is 19 and an Omaha.

Elaborate Dresses Shown.

The first is an elaborate creation in ecru
nun's veiling made with enough ruffles and
tucks to wear out the patience of an ordinary
dressmaker. The sleeves are fully in accordance

[Drawing]
SARAH ARCHIQUETTE, AN ONEIDA.

with prevailing modes and the bodice is
really extremely well finished.

ance with prevailing modes and the [bodice] is really extremely well finished.