Parkas and Alaska Fur Goods To Go
Modern. Supervisor Sees Big
i Market For Goods
NEW POLICY OF INDIAN AF
FAIRS TO COMMERCIALIZE
ESKIMO WARES, TOLD.
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Marketing arts and crafts of
Alaska Eskimos will be a busi
ness with the Bureau of Indian
Affairs it was disclosed recently
when Virgil R. Farrell arrived in
Anchorage with Claude M. Hirst, j
director of the bureau, to find
commercial outlets for the article.
Mr. Farrell has been appointed
supervisor of arts and crafts with
headquarters in Juneau and will
handle the marketing of work
done by natives. For the past 4
years, he has been principal of
the bureau’s school at Nome.
Mr. Hirst and Mrs. Farrell visit
ed in Anchorage while th steam-;
er North Star, on which they are
heading southward, was in port
in Seward. Robert L. King, prin
cipal of the Eklutna school, ac
companied them.
Mr. Hirst said it will be the
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duty of Mr. Farrell to encourage
natives to make useful articles of
clothing or knieik-knaeks for the
purpose of selling them to white
trade. He will also have charge
of finding markets for them.
“We left Nome with $2,500 wor
th of ivory and disposed of the
last bit of it in communities or
Kodiak Island,’’ Mr. Hirst said,
“There is a great demand for the
native arts and crafts. So far we
have been unable to satisfy the
demand in Alas/ka alone. We plan
to reach into tthe States and de
velop the market there when we
are able to do so.”
The aim of the bureau is to
improve the economic status of
the natives by providing them
with profitable lines of business.
Tthe Bureau will take orders
from merchants for ivory, fur
articles and other crafts of the
natives. The native will turn ov
er their work to the Bureau for
Riling the orders, the bureau pay
ing the natives and collecting
from the merdhants.
Mr. Hirst said there are now
138 high school pupils at the Ek
lutna Vocational School, filling
[he institution to capacity. In
creasing the enrollment was a
part of the new program inangu
-ated there during the past sum
mer.
Norman Lee, a full-blooded Es
kimo from Nome came to Eklut
aa aboard the North Star to be
instructor in ivory carving and
3ther arts. He has been giving
instruction in Nome. Mrs. Lee,
who accompanied him, will teach
skin sewing.
Mr. Hirst said the Bureau is
teaching Eskimos the most mod
ern and approved methods of tan
ning hides and designing their
wares for the use of whites. Par
kas to be placed on the market
will fit snugly with attractive de
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signs, he said. Instead of being
the pull-over type as in the past,
they will have zippers down the
front making them easy to don
and remove.
“There is a great field for de
velopment in the sale of parkas
and the bureau aims to show the
| Eskimos how to do it,” Mr. Hirst
said. “The garments are most
appropriate for use in all Alaska
towns and we plan to make them
very common. When they have
met the needs of the Alaska mar
ket we will send them to the
States. We anticipate a big de
mand for the garments through
out the northern tier of states in
the middle west.”—Anchorage
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j One of the main obstacles of
dust as fuel—the heavy wear and
! tear on the motor by grinding
ashes—has been successfully ov
| ercome, declares Dr. Wahl. He
says the Schichau company has
developed a metal alloy which is
harded than any known steel
j and therefore suitable for a mot
or designed to run on dust.
I Previous attempts with dust
combustion motors failed, ex
plained Dr. Wahl, because usual
ly after 150 hours trial run the
cylinders and pistons were worn
j to pieces by the grinding effects of
| the extremely hard residue of
; burnt dust.
The new metal alloy, however,
| withstands the hardest grinding,
I he says, citing that only 1-700 of
' a millimeter was ground off the
cylinder walls of a motor made
: of the new metal during a test
j run of 150 hours.
The experiments are part of the
nation’s four-year plan to ach
ieve economic self-sufficiency.
Dr. Wahl says his “dust eater”
is not much bigger than an or
dinary motorcycle engine, but
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sawdust, remnants of grain, beech
nuts, copra, coca powder, riche, j
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