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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers; the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, The Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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beautiful touch of the feminine side ofIndian life. The girls are brought up from their earliestyears to be the water-carriers — the life-bringers — oftheir race. The beauty, grace, sweet purity, and inno-cence, combined with the native dignity that this highmission confers upon its bearers, might well teach a won-derful lesson to the useless and frivolous of the maidensof the white race. In her San Francisco studio Mrs. Joullin has manyNew Mexico studies, sketches and finished pictures, andhappy are those who have placed upon their home walls,the vivid expressions of her love for this Land of HighColours and High Places. Of equal interest and importance with Mrs. Joullins Isleta Funeral is Eva Almond Withrows Thanks-giving Dance at Acoma. In this ceremony there is thesame combination of pure Indian and Catholic thoughtand expression. The dance, however, is the essentiallyaboriginal part. The intense earnestness, the fervour,the fanatic zeal that leads the young men to their most
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Influence of New Mexico Upon Art 401 exhaustive endeavours are clearly depicted upon the facesof the dancers, and tlie whole effect of terraced-houses,spectators, dancers and feeling is truthfully and artistic-ally rendered. Of the two paintings of Carlos Vierra,— one of theNew Art Museum of Santa Fe, and the other of the oldFranciscan Mission of Zia,— it may be said that theyare fine, artistic expressions of his almost passionate andreverent devotion to the native architecture of New Mex-ico. Reference to the chapter devoted to this subject willshow that he is the principal exponent of this fascinatingtheme. The painting by William Lees Judson, Dean of theFine Arts Department of the University of SouthernCalifornia, representing the Easter Procession of thePenitentes, is a picture of peculiar value and worth. Itis the first attempt, as far as I am aware, truthfully todepict on canvas this amazing spectacle of fanatic devo-tion to a high conception. In the chapter upon the sub-jec

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