528 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921. 



preaching end of the " uncivilized " American natives finds a pathetic 

 expression in the poem of Ella Higginson, The Vanishing Race: 



Into the shadows . . . 



Those last dark ones go drifting. 



. . . Mutely, uncomplainingly they go. 



How shall it be with us when they are gone, 



When they are but a mem'ry and a name? 



May not those mournful eyes to phantoms grow — 



When, wronged and lonely, they have drifted on 



Into the voiceless shadows whence they came? " 



"These lines apply to a beautiful picture by Edward S. Curtis at the Alaska-Yukon- 

 I'aciflc Exposition, Portland, Oreg., in 1909. 



