1900-02-11-New York Tribune-Samples of Work Done By Pupils in Missionary School

New York Tribune, 11 February 1900, p. 24

Many Industries.

Samples of Work Done By Pupils in Missionary School

Chinese Needlework, African Weavings, Indian Lace, Rugs, Blankets and Beadwork.

At the missionary exhibit recently held in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, in connection with the services of missionary week, there were exhibits from mission stations in Japan, China, Africa, Assyria, Brazil, Mexico and the United States. They represented the industries, utensils and apparel of the lands from which they crime, as well as the occupations taught by the mission schools in the different countries.

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Among the dolls at the exhibit was a large pappoose from the Shoshone Agency, a Sioux chief, a Mormon bride and groom, Syrian bride, trained nurse from St. Agnes's Hospital, a cotton picker, dressed in crash gown and sunbonnet; a Greek priest, an Indian girl from the Shoshone Agency, and an Oneida squaw, with her pappoose. A doll from the Oneida tribe was made of cornhusks. Be sides these there was an entire family from the Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, ready for a Journey.

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