Art: Lo the Adaptable Indian

Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is crusading for the idea that the U. S. Indian is not merely a hewer and weaver of interesting anthropological knickknacks, but a full-fledged artist, whose works can stand comparison with the sculpture, painting and architecture of many a more highly civilized people. The result is an exhibition of 834 works of U. S. Indian and Eskimo art.

Compared to the huge, cluttered permanent collections of Indian anthropology in such U. S. institutions as Manhattan's Museum of the American Indian and Museum of Natural History, Washington's Smithsonian and...

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