University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 30, 1974 5
Indian Trading Family Sells Shop to Move On
THE FIRST CLASS in Sufi dancing, offered by Free University, will meet at 9:30 tonight in the United Ministries in Higher Education. The first class is free, and no experience is needed.
By BUNNY MILLER
Kansan Staff Reporter
A KUNDALINI YOGA class is being taught at 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at Hilltop Child Center, Gurcharn Singh, the instructor, said Kundalini included all types of yoga that help individuals to realize the potential within themselves. There is no admission charge, but donations will be accepted.
THE FRIENDS OF THE United Farm Workers will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union. The meeting is open to the public.
When Pat Read leaves town next month, it will be the first time since 1866 that Lawrence has been without an Indian trader named Read.
Read, a trader here since about 1918, has sold the business that was begun by his grandfather and carried on by the family for three generations. He and his wife, Mrs. Bernice Read, are moving to Fallbrook, Calif., in early February.
His shop, Room 203 of the Eldridge House,
7th and Massachusetts streets, has been
built on a plot that was purchased in
An Indian trader, said Read, buys only from Indians and sells only Indian merchandise. He said he has sold "anything Indians and nothing not made by Indians."
"This is strictly an Indian store," he said yesterday, as his sweeping arm indicated a room fully of gleaming jewelry, woven baskets, shapes and sizes and earthmoth pottery.
At one time, Read said, he had the largest
business dealing in Indian antiques in the United States.
"About 50 years ago when I took over the business, we sold quite a few Indian antiques like buckskin, headwear, feathers and headdresses," he said. "But you can't get them anymore. They've all been put in stores and the Indians don't make them anymore."
He said that because of the scarcity he had to "draw on his antiquité business and buy new jewelry," said Amy.
Read said he used to go on buying expeditions to New Mexico and Arizona two or three times a year.
He said that in 1856, when F.W. Read established a dry goods store at what is now 8th and Massachusetts streets, there were 200, Delaware Indians living on the north side of the river and only 400 white people living on the south.
"He had the only dry goods store in Lawrence, so he had to trade with the Indians whether he wanted to or not." Read "They traded with the old man for calice.
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