Article October 13, 1898 Issue

INDIANS AT THE OMAHA EXPOSITION

An Interesting Feature.

One of the most interesting features of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition is said to be the encampments of the Indians. The Indians are there in their native costumes with all their native surroundings. It is said that the visitor sees them, to all intents and purposes, as if he visited their lodges or reservations.

A writer in the Nebraska City Conservative, whose article is republished in the Review of Reviews for October, thus speaks of some of the Indian chiefs:

Stately chiefs stroll up and down, great, imposing-looking men. Most striking countenances are seen among them, faces like bronze masks. They have blankets, feathers, beads, shells, and claws. Each costume is a picture and a study. The men are more picturesque than the women, most of them have large ear-rings. Some of them wear silver medals as big as stove-lids, many of the elders carry turkey-feather fans, and the most incomprehensible hats are found surmounting figures of old Roman senators. But the women are worth looking at. They wear most wonderful moccasins, and are sometimes covered with bracelets, brass rings, and other valuables.

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