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Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12, 1909, at Sound Beach Post Office, under Act of March 3, 1897. 



Vol 



ume 



Vll 



FEBRUARY. 



Number 9 



Rattlers' Rattles in Art. 



An astonishing use of an almost in- 

 creditable number of rattlesnake rat- 

 tles has been made by Mrs. Albert 

 Friedrich of San Antonio, Texas. She 

 has obtained thirty-five thousand or 

 more such rattles. She has them in 

 every shape and size, and with these 

 she works for days, selecting them as 

 her art requires and using them in 

 many and varied artistic designs. The 

 work is not unlike that of embroidery 

 except that she employs rattles instead 



of thread, yarn or silk. She first out- 

 lines a pattern and then fills in the de- 

 tails with the rattles. As an artist 

 in oil colors uses strong strokes and 

 deep colors to bring out a design, so 

 Mrs. Friedrich uses large rattles or 

 small rattles, as may be needed to em- 

 phasize the outlined pattern. There 

 is no great variety of size and it re- 

 quires no small skill so to arrange the 

 lone and the short, the thick and the 

 thin as to have them fit together per- 

 fectly in the oattern. The art requires 



TWO INDIAN HEADS— THE MOST TEDIOUS OF ALL MRS. FRIEDRICH'S WORK. 

 Copyright 1915 by The Agassiz Association, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Conn. 



