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Minnie Evans 6. 3-5-71  Tape WI

M.E. taken a great interest.in me. They would bring Soldiers was all down there, they would bring company. The people down there to see my paintings and they would.tell me what it's worth and what there was but I didn't know and I don't know too much now.

C.W. I wanted to ask you something. When you said you prayed I'm asking you were you praying that you not have to paint anymore or were you praying that you no longer have to feel that you had to paint? Were you praying to have the need to paint lifted away from you?

M.E. No

C.W. Did you think painting was a burden at that time?

M.E. That's right. I just say God. God give me that gift. (C.W. Yes, yes) So I would ask Him to please help me

C.W. To help get with your painting?

M.E. Help me with that gift he give me. I first tried to ask him this - to say Lord if you got anything to give me and you know when people get a gift or something time God give em they get biggity (C.W. That's right I see). They gets biggity so bad. So I say please Sir if I am not right and not able to take this gift please take it from me but I stopped that. because I know if God had not seen that I was able and was the one for this gift he wouldn't have gave it to me.

C.W. What is the lost world of Minnie Evans?

M.E. Say what?

C.W. What is the lost world of Minnie Evans? The lost world?

M.E. The lost world. Now I don't know bout that. When I has the first exhibition here in New York in Miss Starr's church. The Church of Epithany. A Mr. Parker of Baits University over in Brooklyn. He named those pictures because they didn't have any name or anything to it so he named them the Lost World.

C.W. Now I had an idea that one reason that he had that you said your paintings came to you from the nations before the Flood. Did you say that?

M.E. Yes I said that.

C.W. now what did you mean? Tell me the story behind that

M.E. It mean that because thedreams I dreampt of them. I have had lots of dreams that I never interpreted could ever get that these pictures, thesething was given to me before the Flood before the world was you know before this generations of the world and now they was given to me. These paintings God game them to me it is things because they have been destroyed. (C.W. yes). Nations have been destroyed and a lot of this pictures that God has given me has beought back from different nations but I don't know what nations. I would love to know. Because knew according to the Bible there is thousands of nations that's been destroyed and nobody knew anything about them

(C.w. Right, because peiple have had a lot of trouble and are trying