The Mentor
June, 1922
Front Cover:
This is a wonderful, vintage magazine. In addition to the articles the magazine contains lovely vintage advertisements. It was published in June, 1922 by the Crowell Publishing Company at Springfield, Ohio. The magazine measures 7 inches by 10 inches. The magazine contains b, 42 pages. The cover shows minor signs of wear and soiling. The cover is securely attached. The cover has a small defect towards the bottom edge (just left of “By George Wharton James”). The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this 81 year old periodical is near very good.
Bottom: Excavation of “Far View House”
By Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. Previous to excavation this was a large mound, on which were growing bushes and other vegetation. It is on top of the mesa and may be of later construction than the other large ruins in the sides of the canyons.
Contents:
Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellers by Ronne C. Shelse of the United States Geological Survey
Indian Blankets and Their Makers by George Wharton James
Listening to Your Nerves
My Neighbor the Hippo
Why Did They Say No?
The Queerest Tree
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Top: Dr. J. Walter Fewkes
Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., who for a number of years has conducted research work in Mesa Verde Park. His campfire talks at night during the summer are a feature to be remembered by those fortunate to hear them.
Bottom: Visitors Examining Spruce Tree House
This is the second in size of the prehistoric ruins on the mesa. It is 216 feet long and contained 114 rooms. A kiva, or underground ceremonial chamber, is shown in the foreground. There are seven other kivas in Spruce Tree House.
Hopi Ceremonial Blanket (Collection of J.L. Hubbell)
This blanket is made of cotton, grown, spun, and woven by the Hopis themselves. The designs, top and bottom, are worked in with colored yarn, by embroidery methods. In the two outer diamonds of the bottom row are to be seen rainclouds, struck by lightning, and the descending rain, clearly indicating that this blanket was worn by some woman during a ceremonial prayer for rain.
Center: A Navajo Weaver
Almost invariably the Navaho weaver is a woman. Her loom is most primitive and yet thoroughly adequate for the work. It is generally set up out of doors, with a wide brush shelter over it to protect the weaver from the too bright rays of the sun. It is supported by two upright poles surmounted by a transverse one, the upper yarn-beam being lashed to this by a cowhide rope, and the lower one lashed to pegs driven in the ground. The weaver has no shuttle, merely thrusting a ball of the yarn required in and out of the warp. The design she carries in her mind, and she herself is the creator of all the many and various patterns now found woven in Navaho blankets.
Bayeta Chief’s Blanket (Fred Harvey Collection)
This is a beautiful old Navaho—the red of the bayeta, from years of usage and the action of water and the sun, having toned down to a beautiful rose color. A chief’s blanket, in the olden days, was woven broadside on, so that when he wrapped himself up in it the design came around him instead of in the perpendicular. The Navaho name for this style of blanket is Honal-kladi or Honal-Chadi.
Top: Elle, of Ganado, Arizona, One of the Best Weavers
Naturally among Navaho blanket wavers, as with all other artisans, there is rivalry, and there are those who have natural aptitudes, those who are lazy and indifferent, those who enjoy their work and are spurred on with the spirit of high endeavor. Human nature is much the same whether among the civilized or the aborigine. Of the best weavers of the Navahos is Elle, here pictured, born at Ganado, the home for two centuries of skilled weavers. She inherited her ability and artistic taste from her mother, even as her own daughter, Tuli, ahs inherited from her a similar ability and creative genius.
Navaho Blanket of Symbolic Design (Author’s Collection)
The Indian is a natural symbolist, and also largely imitative. Hence in the designs of the weaver’s choice one will find a variety with different significances. The weaver of the above blanket had placed her loom near the railroad track. As the trains passed, the idea flashed into her mind to reproduce them upon her blanket. Here, then, is the origin of trains going east and trains going west, and the curious will discover chickens, sleeping and day coaches with ventilators, cattle cars, birds on the track, as well as engines with headlights, smoke, steam, and cowcatchers
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Photo caption: This is a Tree
It may not look like one-which is not surprising, for it is one of nature’s curiosities and is found only in Damara Land, Africa…
My Neighbor the Hippo
Masai Tribesmen Dragging Dead Hippo from the Waters of Lake Elementeita
The final illustration shows a sample advertisement – No. 1 Autographic Kodak Special Camera
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