WALL COVERINGS


a transcript from the basketry of the Cal-
ifornian Indians; the second and fourth
bands (counting from the base of the de-
sign) being respectively a mountain and a
cloud symbol, while the third band is the
pictograph of a flight of wild geese, occur-
ring in the art of the Sacramento Valley.
  The color-scheme is wrought upon a
brown back-ground; with the mountains
and clouds in red; the trees on the moun-
tains, the men and the deer in blue; and the
flying geese in peacock blue.
   This last illustration is, perhaps, the
most pleasing and skilful of the series,


since it unites a strong decorative effect
with an equally strong imaginative idea.
The Indian is here pictured in the midst of
all that he loves best: he has the objects of
his greatest pleasure near him, while about
him lies infinite space.
  These designs, which may be executed at
little cost, if hung upon our nursery-walls,
might show the Indian to our children in a
new and better light: no longer as the
scalper of men and the murderer of chil-
dren, but as a being of simple life, possess..
ing crafts, arts, a system of morals and a
religious faith not to be despised.


The happy hunting grounds


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