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The murals by Indian Painters now being shown at Rockefeller Centre have an interesting history back of them. Only six months previous to the arrival of these canvasses in New York, their painters had perhaps never remotely dreamed [[/strikethrough]] with the possible exception of Awa Tsireh [[/strikethrough]] of [[strikethrough]] exhibiting in painting [[/strikethrough]] attempting murals. Their [[strikethrough]] sole [[/strikethrough]]  mediums had been 3 water color, pottery 2 painting, and 1 sand. | But there were those in Santa Fe who felt a mural quality in sand [[?]] in the [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] the beautiful little masterpieces that the [[strikethough]] brown [[/strikethrough]] red skinned artists brought around to barter at their doors and [[strikethrough]] Mary Austin with the usual insight divined this quality, [[/strikethrough]] Chester E. Faris, agent to | the northern pueblos had faith enough to offer a building of the Indians that [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] Experiment & [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] to Olive Rush, these walls of [[strikethrough]] the  Indian school found a blessed [[/strikethrough]] appeared [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] a golden opportunity for  setting forth the wealth of design [[strikethrough]] possessed by [[/strikethrough]] inherent in how many of the [[strikethrough]] pupils [[/strikethrough]] students in the school . Up through the Northern

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