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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950
Photos Portray Navajo Life By Routine, Family Customs
A Navajo Indian woman trading a sheepskin for tobacco can be seen on the third floor of Strong hall in an exhibition of Navajo photographs which appeared in Life magazine.
Pictures of them "puffing" on cigarettes as they cook and butcher indicates the popularity of tobacco among the Indian women. One illustration portrays two squawds aiding each other with a "light."
The display includes scenes taken from the daily life of a particular Yellowsalt family, who live at the foot of the sacred Navajo mountain. 161 miles from the nearest white town. The family consists of many relatives, because the Navajo custom is for the man to live with his wife's people. The whole Navajo tribe occupies the northern Arizona highlands.
A girl herding sheep has been included because the Indians depend almost entirely upon sheep for a living. Although the pictures portray a Navajo woman combing her husband's hair and another herding, women's position in the family is good. Women own property and lineage is always traced through them. Besides their regular work, the men aid women in caring for the children, butchering, and other household tasks.
Bread is the Navajo's staff of life, and is baked on an open grill. Other food is goat's blood and flesh. The goat's head is singed before cooking. A wrinkled Indian woman with stringy white hair has been photographed performing the process.
A couple and their child were photographed as they rode down a dirt road in a wagon pulled by mules. They were on their way to the trading post. One picture depicts an Indian weaver trying to sell her rug at the post.
The ritual life of the Navajos is revealed in pictures which portray a young girl's preparation for a ceremony in which she becomes a woman. First, the girl dresses in jewelry and begins cooking a huge meal for the ceremony. The meal is poured into a pit, and corn shucks are placed on the top of the batter, which is cooked by building a fire over it. The ceremony lasts five days, and on the fifth morning the girl runs toward the sun and back past the smouldering fire. She is then considered to be a woman.
A photograph of a woman with a backache waiting to receive the blessings of the medicine man is further indication of Navajo belief in ritualism.
The burial of a small child was photographed to emphasize the fact that there are few hospitals and only one doctor for every 6,000 Navajos.
The young English-speaking Navajos are shown attending a school run by the Indian service. Here they are taught to want the things that the Navajo world cannot supply.
The photographs were taken by Leonard McCombe, Life magazine photographer. They were compiled by the editors of Life.
KU Bureau Will Make Trade Study
The Bureau of Business research aided by students from the School of Business, will conduct a business analysis survey for the Chamber of Commerce of Junction City, Prof. Paul Malone, director of the bureau, has announced.
Students who will take part are seniors and graduates in the marketing seminar.
The survey will attempt to analyze the retail sales tax receipts for Junction City and vicinity from 1937 to date in order to indicate trends in buying, and find the reasons for those trends.
The survey will also map the trade limits of Junction City, and conduct a comparison of merchandising techniques between Junction City and any surrounding towns which might attract potential consumers away from its trade area.
An investigation into the buying habits of consumers in the area will conclude the survey.
Rug Display Shown Now
A white rya rug and other creations of the Elements of Weaving class are on display in the exhibit window of the design department on the third floor of Strong hall.
The rug, woven by Robert Kent fine arts sophomore, is covered with a heavy, raised nap, which was made by tying each thread separately as it was woven.
A red afghan rug by William Inel, graduate student, and red and white servettes woven by Mary Helen Baker, fine arts senior, add color to the exhibition. In contrast, a delicate, blue baby blanket by Nancy Haffner, fine arts junior, and luncheon cloths by Mrs. Nellie Schocken, special students, are on display.
Blue suiting material woven by Marianne Koch, fine arts junior, and wine jacket material by Naida Craig, fine arts junior, demonstrate the herring bone pattern. Suiting materials by Elizabeth Stanford, fine arts freshman, and Vera Johnson, fine arts junior, are also in the window.
Other creations shown were servettes in sporty colors by Barbara Dunlap, fine arts senior; raffia serveties by Patricia Perkins, fine arts junior; coat material woven by Alyce Mason, fine arts sophomore; and a blue and white string rug woven with strips of blanket by Marjorie Boorland, fine arts junior.
Mechanisms used in the weaving process, such as bobbins and heddle wires, are exhibited. The class is instructed by Miss Evelyn DeGraw, assistant professor of design.
So far, 34 pints of blood have been donated by Lawrence business and civic organizations and by private individuals since the recent authorization of the program. It is for student organizations to participate in the program. Dr. Cauteson and individuals may also participate. However, donors between 18 and 21 years of age must have the written consent of their parents.
Many veterans of the South Pacific have been rejected as donors because of malaria, and no person over 60 years of age is accepted as a donor.
Mrs. Lee S. Cole, wife of an instructor in journalism, is one of the first persons to receive transfusions under the new program. She has now had four transfusions. Mr. Cole has great respect for the program and says, "It is a rather comforting feeling to know that the blood bank is available without any waste of time."
Donations to the new Douglas county blood program at Watkins Memorial hospital have undoubtedly saved many lives, according to Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, chairman of the blood storage program.
Dr. Cauteson refers to the project as a "community program" where one person "contributes his pint of blood to someone else who needs it." Then in turn the recipient recruits another donor in order to maintain the supply in storage." This last is not, however, compulsory, but is an attempt to maintain the supply in case of emergency demands.
Cards are kept on all potential donors, with the blood type and other information. These cards are filed for reference in case the need exceeds the demand. In this case donors in the "walking blood bank" are called to contribute any rare blood types needed.
Supply and need regulate the quantity of blood kept on hand, for whole blood may be kept only 21 days after it has been taken. After this time the blood is used for experimental and other purposes since it is considered unfit for transfusion.
Official Bulletin
Tuesday. Feb. 21
Dr. Canuteson points out that the disadvantages of the walking blood bank system is that the volunteers
Y. M.C.A. All-Membership smoker, 7:30 to 9 p.m. today, Kansas room, Union. Dr. Werner Winter and Rolf Wollenweider will discuss European student life.
Johnson County club meeting, 7 p.m. today, 210 Blake. Discussion of activities and payment for Jayhawkers.
County Blood Program Saves Lives
Tau Beta Pi picture for Jayhawk-
er, 7 p.m. today, Military Science
building instead of Union building.
All Student Council, 7:30 p.m. today, Pine room, Union.
Social Work club, 4 p.m. Thursday, East room, Union. All interested are invited. Each member invited to bring potential member or interested guest.
A. I.E.E.-I.R.E., 8 p.m. today, Lindley auditorium. Presentation of student papers.
Aim club, 7:15 p.m. today, Union Rifle team on firing range, 7 p.m.
behind, Military Science, Wednesday Match will be fired at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Also firing at 8 and 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Jay Jane picture to be taken 5
pm. Wednesday, Pine room, Union.
Please wear your uniforms.
Fencing club, 7:30 p.m. today Robinson gym.
Engineers' Wives, 7:30 p.m. today.
English room, Union.
Junior Interdorm council, 5 p.m. today, Miller hall.
Quitt club, 7:15 p.m. today, Union.
Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, 4 p.m. Wednesday,
Pine room.
Square Dance club, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Recreation room, Union Anyone interested is invited.
A.W.S. President's council, 7:15
m. Thursday, Miss Habein's house.
K. U. Dames, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Hamilton's Dress shop. Style show; also election of secretary.
Red Pepper banquet, 6 p.m. Wed-
nesday, Kansas room, Union
Alpha Phi Omega smoker. 7 p.m. today, East room, Union. All members and prospective members welcome.
Sociology club, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, English room. Panel discussion by representatives of sociology social work and education departments on job possibilities for sociology majors. All invited.
S. A.M. meeting, 7:30 p.m. today. Green hall theater. Max W. Foresman. Spencer Chemical Public Relations. speaker. Election.
Movie on Camp Counsellor jobs,
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Eldridge Grill
room.
Lawrence Optical Co.
should be examined today. Call for appointment. Any lens or Prescription Duplicated. Phone 1025. 1025.Meg
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1025 Mass.
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Men's Suits, Cleaned and Pressed . . 75c Ladies' Plain Dresses, Cl. and Pressed . . 79c
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must come at any time of the day or night if needed. This system has been very successful in emergencies, and is now used to supplement the blood storage plan. With the two programs in effect, a quick transfusion of any blood type may be given.
The costs of the transfusion are reduced, in the storage program, to a small charge for the administering of the blood. No charge is made for the blood itself, this being provided by the sponsors of the program.
the program. The new program is under the
joint sponsorship of the Douglas county medical society, the Lawrence Memorial hospital, the Douglas county health department, and Watkins Memorial hospital.
Before it reaches Pittsburgh, the entire flow of the Monongahela River is used 19 times for cooling purposes by the steel mills and other industries located on its banks.
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