Workmen hung an enormous banner in Manhattan's Grand Central Station last week. Thousands of commuters who did not know a Pomo from a Pima, a Hopi from a Zuni, a Choctaw from a Cherokee, now knew that the long heralded exposition of Indian Tribal Arts had opened. The exposition's purpose is not only to show that the untutored mind of Lo! the poor Indian has produced a primitive art of the greatest importance for U. S. painters and designers, but also that among U. S. Indians there still are painters, potters, weavers and silversmiths doing important work in the old...
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