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1960's

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Minnie Evans

N.H.S. The school teacher?

M.E. Un huh, and her daughters were so interested in me. And so this lady I want you to please contact him.

N.H.S. I want to ask you Minnie about the Lost Indian. Did you mean that he was an Indian of a lost tribe or did you mean he was an individually lost?

M.E. I think he was. I think he was an Indian of a lost tribe. The way I think, the way you know I painted him. He's half raggety under everything and then that writing he has there something he got there. Some of those Indians somewhere down there in California or down because I have been told some lady come here to me. She says Minnie there is a park, I forgot what she named that park down there on the other side, somewhere in Los Angeles. She said you will find more different tribes of Indians. Where there's not but she says 13 or 14 kinda old ones left from there tribe. Everyone's gone but them and different ones of its kind. And she said that they can tell you - I got a picture, I ran across it the other day and I put it out so that you could see it because the man asked me if some of these pictures had ever been down there to California. Down to this same park where this lady been. I said no I haven't. But he says you got it, you got it all. You never seen nothing? I said no. He said you got all of this plain. You got the tribe of that Indian and everything. I said no, I'm not but he says there's not but a few of those Indians left and a lot of those things. I wish I had gotten it a little bit earlier so I could of thought it all out so you could get it but later you will. But I wanted you to get Mrs. Smith and her two daughters, Miss Nancy and Miss Jane. They were so interested in me.

Now this is from Mrs. Poe. You see from the Walters' Art Gallery?

N.H.S. She called you Annie.

M.E. What's say?

N.H.S. I say Annie.

M.E. That's what she pronounced my name is and I wrote a letter back to her and tole her that my name is Minnie instead of that. They sent this typed letter to me of these paintings