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Contrary to thle contention of many scholars and laynien, native African art bas flot become $ extinct since the inroâds of civilization, according. to Mrs. Melville ýHerskcwitz, wbo spoke on "African Ait and Culture" before the March meeting of tht Nortb Shore Art. league at Cem- munity House iin Winnetka, Friday nigh t. Mrs., Hlerskovitz, the wife of the prof essor of. an- thropoloîgy at Northwestern university, bas ac- t. companied, ber husband. on numerous fieldtrips inl Afnica, and bas collaborated with himi on bis books. kFormis of native art which Mrs. Herskovitz cl*assified with the traditional and primitive were wood carving, textiles and brass work. As a part j of ber -lecture she- displayed an extensive and rare collection of African art pieces. The samples of wood carvings consisted. largely of containers With symbolic decorations on the outside, or wooden images to -whom sacrifices are -made for: religiolls or su perstitious reasons. Curiouslyenub no native woiman is allowed *tocareMrs. Herskovitz said. Wooden images of twins were among some of the most fasciriating piceés in becr collection. Twins are lookekl uponw as good luck and are wor- sbipped-. They possess 'a single soul, and for this reason, when ont dies, bis image is carved to provide a lodging place for tbe soul, whiclh might otherwise, roani about :and haunt people. Bronze in Africa is a pr ecious metal, and bronze art workés are usually, in the possession of royalty or the véry wealthy, the speaker said. Haif a dozen or so of her bronze specimens were human figures, dçlicately and carefully made, and far less crude than the wood carvings. One speci- men was an axe with an elaborately traced bronze blade, used for cerenionial dancing. Aîplique work done on brigbty, colored cloth lung -froin screens as she tcctured. The serpents,. hugl animais and natives portrayed upon thet» held sentimental and magicaI values for their owners and were most difficuit to obtaiti, she said. The clothes are made by guilds. ani the skill is handed down from father to son throuigh genera- tions. Native embroiderv is also to be seen on many otlwr articles such as caps., haminocks and umbrellas. The place of: thé artist ini African society. 11r s. Herskovitz explained, is not very high. at least, not among the women, who realize that anl artist is rarely a, good provider. The African language and its oral poetry are Mrs. Herskovitz' speciai hiobby, and ini conclusion th * JJQward Preston ofpi Vhetté r 4ito.e, Sikt t/he role of Melphistopheles inj the opera, "JFau.si one of the Perfonrmances 01, the repertoire of ti rcsncorporatcd Chicago Opera., eampany, uriii is ii0w pla3,yinql iCicago and surrounding citiù tM'rs. Ostermamn Opens, Home for Music Club Mrs. Ru&Iolf Ostermnajmn iwillJ open lier borniie at 234 Warick road, Keîilworth,. for the next ac- tive inienber o-oncert of the i.ake View. Musical s'ociety Monday, Narcli 23. at 2:30 o'clock. 'ihe prograin. arranged hyv Catherine Mc- Ctitceon Baker. of Evanston, will be pre sented by Virginia linig Miniîmna of Glencobe, 1)anist: l.ois Russel l lolzirnan o(f Chicago, soprano'; Thelnia Olinsted(-)of Evatistoii, ,ý(,raiio ; JeýssIe Ruchtel of Evanston. violinist, and I ladassahi Del- son Josephi of Evanston, pianist. Mms. St. Clair Carver will aiýotlal Ms Olnmsted; Lotise l'.van accomnhany M rs. Buclitel, and1 Ruthm RuýseIl (Cartwright ivili play for Mrs. Holzmani. *Thie hostesses assisting, NMrs ().terniann at the Maxine Blake Walker of Glencoe, and Edward T. Ryerson of Wilmette are among the north shore artists whose paintings bave been hung in tbe Fifteentb International WVater Color show at the Art institute ini Chicago. Maxine Walker, the daugbter of the, Frank Walkers of Gl1encoe,'exhibits "Dog'Show," an ex-ý tremely modern study of aduits. and cbildren standing and sitting: about, wbiie a dog sbow is -in* progress. The medium used is gouache, which consists of opaque colors, grounid in wvater, and mixed with a preparation of guni. . r.Ryerso. a former student at the Evanston Acadeny, of Fie Arts.. is employed as-a conm- mercial artist by an advertisingý agency. His painting., -City ,.iits,"- is a night scene of How- ard street near the elevated linesb1etween Chicago> and Evanston. The, tendencies he dîsplays are. l)ut slightly nmodern. WVith the. world's.best water colorists contrib- uting to the exhibit. it is a eal honOr for local art- ists to show*' their pictures. ln ail,- 519 pictures, 125 of which are foreign, have.beéen chosen by the committee., The countries. repre*sented include: Aust 'ria, Cuba, France. Gerinany, Great Britain, Greece, Huingary, japan, Mlexico., Poland, Russia and Spai. i h As a cosmuopolitan. showshoubtld, it, contains ail 's ..phases of art-the modern, the non-miodemn, ànd those wvbich escape -exact classiicationi, but may, be termed individualistic. The work ranges f rom, the sketchy quality of A. Kenneth Ness' gouache, "Somnebody Died at the Rich Man's.House," to the .accurately drawn pencil and crayon picture, "Re- turn fmom Bohieria," by Grani.t, Wood. Gives, Two Programs Helen Heciges of Glencoe, soprano, is giving a programi before the Archié club i Chicago on Fmi- day, Mardi 27. She vvill have as lier accomipanists Olga Sandor, pianist, and Caroline Solfronk,.flut- ist. Miss Hledges is aiso giving a gmoup of songs for the 'Rogers Park \%oman's club, on April 7. Olga Sandor wMiii again accompany. ber. Young Pianist. Wil- vocal T. A. sang ;"by >gers, ; -ime or1 îiig Water." mette, will ta Verue's "Ar which lu to t ment of the nteU Dy theC uramnatic <epart- school in Boston this week. Miss Margaret Aitie Loomis of Glencoe, Piaist, wvas thae guest artù't at a programf of :piano music giv'en for the Kappa Alpha Theta alumnae, March 18, at the honte of Mis.' Wilard Grimm t.of Keilworth.