Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1920 — Prismatic Colors. [ARTICLE]

Prismatic Colors.

It is commonly said that- there are seven primary colors in the rainbow, namely, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet But these colors mix, and the so-called Fraunhofer lines name ten, as red, red-orange, orange-yellow, yellow, green-yellow, and yellow-green, blue-green, skyblue, blue and blue-violet and violet The Indians did not have names for all the subdivisions of color. Their name fer bluets ochako; for green, okchamall; red is called humma, and yellow, lakna. These are names in the Choctaw tongue.