| Summary: | "A special workshop in Bone Art was set up primarily for all the BIA teachers from Alaska, where Bone Art is a long, deep tradition. Jim McGrath, Indian Summer, 1971, Director taught the class. Simple files, saws, drills and some grinders were the main tools. Beef bones from the campus (where an animal farm was formerly located) were used for raw material. Pictured here are Mary Lou Rush, Art Instructor, Barrow Day School, Barrow Alaska, and Jim Crume, Art Instructor, Stewart Indian School, Nevada. Both Ed and Bonnie Graff of the Hooper Bay Day School in Alaska and thier children participated in the two-day workshop, as did Helena Pacheco, Winnebago-Sioux, Elementary Teacher at Isleta Elementary School, New Mexico. Bone proved to be beautiful and natural art material in the workshop as it has been for centuries for Indian people."
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