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The Cornell Reading Courses 



STUDY TOPICS FOR PROGRAM 7 



Transition from clay-coatcd and cla}' -lined Ijaskets to pottery jars and 



dishes. 

 Summary of experiences that have determined shapes and patterns of 



pottery, such as handles, legs, lips, necks, and the like. 

 Processes in making pottery: 



1. Moulding from lumps. 



2. Building by coils. 



Miniature animal-shaped dishes for cliildren's use. 

 Sources of information concerning primitive pottery: 



1. Survivals in burial mounds and n.iins. . 



2. Pictures on walls of tombs and caves. 



3. Present day repetitions. 



PROGRAM 8 



PRIMITIVE WOMAN AS ARTIST 



Roll call. — In place of the roll call 

 it would be well to have three 

 children of ages from ten to 

 twelve speak parts of Longfel- 

 low's Hiawatha. 

 General discussion. — Ideas of beauty 

 held and expressed by primitive 

 woman: 



1. Ideas that civilized woman of 

 to-day admires, for example, 

 in Pueblo potten,% Navajo 

 rugs, and Chilcat blankets. 



2. Ideas that civilized woman of 

 to-day discards or scorns, for 

 example, nose rings and tat- 

 tooing. 



The leader chosen for this discus- 

 sion should organize her subject 

 matter well and have at least five 

 members prepared to speak for 

 two minutes in order to make the discussion lively from the start. 

 Songs. — A group of Indian songs. MacDowell's To a Water Lily and 

 Cadman's Land of the Sky Blue Water are particularly appropriate- 

 songs for this meeting and could be delightfully combined ^^'ith a group 

 of three native Indian songs. 

 Paper. — Nature as the primitive woman's art teacher in form and 

 color. 



FlG."43. — A birch bark wigwam of the present 

 day on a Wisconsin Indian reservation 



