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,eiU ' n «l ln,j fathers ists.” ,b , le s. “FiJ tler gy, c% st you caul, ;ssi "g yoi hSP it! j also stnia r ‘oed as ss. th, as they when we * 'Often peopi to stress in °f it. Many, ing effects, don’t ft, K that a! I'essure W duals expaj -‘SS oi wom es or of a Hike ' events th ot the distress, i ,, <e of events svill of tin strolled, ugs by fin or by cla n ! they at la onal segr® i mandat: irk have i in wonifl g a newoi rork of ftp rk is equal >, the ma she arpes asacqnait overwhda ere to star Mogollan Indian ruins unearthed THE BATTALION Page 21A MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1978 Field course studies campsites There’s an old adage that says: “Experience is the name we give our mistakes. Dr. Harry Shafer and 14 under graduate anthropology students have unearthed the ruins left by a group of Indians whose “experi ence” may have cost them their civilization. As part of Texas A&M Univer sity’s undergraduate field course in anthropology, Shafer and three staff members spent five weeks with stu dents examining Mogollon Indian campsites between Deming and Silver City, N.M. “We believe these Indians con tinually occupied this site from around A.D. 900 until 1225 and then disappeared,” Shafer ex plained. “One of the questions we’re trying to answer is ‘what made them leave?’ “We know they arrived and began a farming operation,” he continued. “They disappeared and left be hind a lot of unanswered questions, but, fortunately for us, they left plenty of clues.” The Mogollon tribe was one of three major Pueblo Indian groups in the Southwest, Shafer said. They were, from all indications, a very re ligious people who were self- supporting farmers. “From the remains found in their campsites we know they lived in surface pueblos (small huts dug into the ground) built near the flood plain,” he observed. “Their ar chitecture was sufficient and adap tive, but somewhat poor when com pared to other Pueblo groups. “But their ceramics were unsur passed,” Shafer lamented. “That’s probably why the site was found in a vandalized state. Some people really have a liking for Indian pot tery.” The Texas A&M team brought back 20,000 to 30,000 pottery shards, but no complete pieces of their art work, he said. They also found crude tools, arrow points and some grinding slabs. “These people were primarily farmers who ate some jackrabbit, fish, birds, mule deer and elk,” the anthropologist said. “They raised corn, beans, squash and maybe some sunflowers by diverting water when the rains came. “We believe their agricultural technology might have finally caught up with them,” he added. “Their population could have grown so large they had trouble feeding everyone and then had a bad year with their crops.” The site once supported close to 75 people, Shafer said. A very dry year could have hurt the Mogollon badly. The anthropology project is funded through two grants: $4,000 from Texas A&M’s College of Lib eral Arts and $4,000 from the Uni versity’s Organized Research ap propriation. “If we continue to be funded, I’d like to bring students out to this site for the next five or six years,” Shafer said. “It’s a great place to leam and there’s a lot of history to unravel. “And besides, these people could have made a mistake 750 years ago we could learn from today. ” catching • secretaw Jniversityi ;sor it-lor prepai hool girls li t W neve - as carpeiv Idets in tli Miss, cl a prog® vomanll : trainee» jta Airlite lias pla« ots in bal and tn» milarefe ind platfl bs. jys ten® lown-ho* ice gw* Waste cleanup costing dogs homes Students enrolled in Texas A&M University s anthropology field school unearth 750-year- old Mogollon Indian campsites in southern New Mexico. Pictured left to right, are, in the foreground, Martin Foret of Houston, Jean McConal of College Station and Kay Weath erford of Houston. In the background are Ron Jacob of Bryan and Don Lloyd of Austin. Pioneer in nude photography recalls 66-year-long career United Press International NEW YORK — Andre Kertesz Mobile,Ik pulled the chair closer to his desk ilteachera and winked. aninsum “I’m an old man,” he said. "I can ice been die any time. Is that why you came gro baseki to see me? To catch me for a final itchel ft: interview?” He pointed to the photographs scattered around his apartment. “I let my pictures talk for me,” he said. “But, why not?” Kertesz, a pioneer photographer in the fields of literary reportage and artistic nude pictures, has been creating photographs for 66 years. 1 try to tell a story with my pic tures,” Kertesz, 84, said. “That’s what they call literary reportage. This type of photography wasn’t ■d BOfifij common before me. bsnevfk] I always clicked my camera : when I happened to like something, whether it was two naked gypsy children kissing in the fields or a young man falling asleep in a cafe house, my first work back in 1912. Never cared for posed pictures, you know, the studio photography style that was so common in the early days. ” Born in Budapest, Hungary, on July 2, 1894, Kertesz gained recog nition during World War I with his candid portraits of Hungarian sol diers. One showed a soldier hugging a id has all it her the tern- ecominjf er const! lent, ski enters d< rress tbfl old) and* rights, restm# . part-tii# nd work ing through the fields. Another pic ture of Kertesz’ early period por trayed a blind violin player who was being helped across the street by a barefoot boy. “I did what I felt, not just what I saw,” Kertesz said. “I take pictures from the heart.” Kertesz emigrated to Paris in 1925 and presented his first one- man photographic exhibition two years later. He became one of the most famous photo journalists in Europe. “Paris was a magnet for artists,” he said. “Paris took me in and gave its soul. Kertesz left Paris in 1936 for the United States, hoping to introduce his pictures to American audiences. “It was a struggle for many years,” Kertesz said. “At first, editors told me, ‘Andre, your pic tures talk too much.’ When I took pictures of nude women, I was told not to show the pubic area. Can you imagine Rembrandt or Rubins covt ering up their nude paintings? Kertesz is now viewed as a major force in making nude photography a respectable art form. His book, “Distortions,” is considered a classic in nude photography. For years in the United States he was reduced to free-lancing. “What happend to me in America was shameful,” he said. “I wanted to go back to Paris with my wife, but then came the war in 1939. We stayed in New York. And after the war, well we thought it was too late for us to move again.” Eventually, recognition did come. In 1964, Kertesz had a one- man show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It was followed by similiar exhibitions in Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm and Budapest. For a quarter century, Kertesz has been living in Manhattan’s Washington Square area. A pub lished collection of his photos, titled “Washington Square,” covers a period from 1936 to the 1970s. Two recent events hurt Kertesz. “Some of my old pictures have wound up in unauthorized hands,” he said, “and Tm trying to get them back. I don’t want my pictures to be used for commercial purposes by others. I want to retain control over my pictures. The other was the death of his wife, Elizabeth, 10 months ago. “I have little purpose left in life now that she is gone,” he said. Kertesz added that he is putting all his his works together. “I want the collection to stay to gether in museums or galleries,” he said, “so others may enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed taking them.” United Press International NEW YORK — Many New Yor kers, faced with a law ordering them to clean up after their dogs, are in stead getting rid of their animals, local animal-shelter officials say. Peggy Slattery, vice president of the Central Westchester Humane Society, said its shelters in suburban Elmsford and Yonkers are jammed with dogs from New York City. Their owners are mostly senior citi zens. “We are taking in three times as many dogs as we usually do and a lot of this is attributable to this new pooper-scooper law in the city, ” said Slattery. “We only take in animals from Yonkers, but if someone brings in a dog and we don’t take it in, we know that in a half hour it will become a stray. The city law, which provides fines of up to $100, went into effect Aug. 1. AS PC A figures show the number of dogs abandoned or handed over to the city’s largest animal shelter in the first 15 days jumped by about 300, or more than 25 percent over the same period last year. Both the Yonkers and Elmsford shelters were jammed with 400 animals last week and Slattery said that about 90 dogs were to he put to death unless they were adopted immediately. She said 25 dogs, most from New York City, had already been put to sleep. Many of the people turning in the dogs are senior citizens, both Slat tery and AS PC A officials said. The hue is the scariest thing,” Mrs. Slattery said. “They are on a fixed income and they do not have Happy ^ Cottage ^ Music boxes, unus ual jewelry, imports, decorative accessor ies and gifts for any occasion. (Across from Luby's) the money for the fine. ” Officials recalled an elderly man who led a small black dog into the ASPCA offices in New York just after the law took effect and told the woman behind the counter he wanted to give up the pet. “He’d had that dog for 14 years and you could tell it was well taken care of,” the woman said. “But he said he was too feeble to lean over and clean up after it, and was scared of the fine.” As the man explained his predic ament he began to weep. Neverthe less, he signed the “destruction slip” for the animal and left. 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