Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1914 — Indian Ghost Story. [ARTICLE]

Indian Ghost Story.

Several years ago I had a studio in Albuquerque, N. M., and the walls of my reception rooms and office were hung with large photographs of Indians, Karl Moore writes in Leslie’s. One day I was visited by six men of the Navajo tribe, who, after much smoking and vißiting, made known the real cause of their call. Directly over my desk was a framed portrait of one of the old medicine men of their tribe, who had Just died. Believing that a part of his soul was imprisoned in the portrait—else how could it look so like him?—they asked me if I would not destroy it, so that his spirit might be released and be at peace. I immediately took the print from the frame and tore it into bits while the men looked on with silent approval. After thanking me they each shook hands in turn and filed quietly out of the room. They did not suspect that there might still be in existence other copies of the picture or a negative.