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leggings,would look better.Necklacesof beads should be worn and beads or small disks of tin sewed hereand there on the garments.At a pinch,however,any dark coloredcast-off blouse and skirt,with a few ornaments and with fringe sewedon sleeves and bottom of skirt,would answer every purpose.  \n _         \nPROPERTIES.  \nPaddles for_warriors at opening.Knife for Purring Panther.Bowl for Frozen Face.Flask for Pocahontas.Recipe Book for FrozenFace.In“Whisht!Little Injun”song,the following are required:Tomahawks for warriors,baby carriages or dummy babies,policeclubs,helmets and whiskers.  \n—  \nSTAGE DIRECTIONS.  \nR.means right of the stage;C.,center;R.C.,right center;L.,left;R.D.,right door;L.D.,left door,etc.;1 E.,first entrance;U.E.,upper entrance,etc.;D.F.,door in flat or scene running acrossthe back of the stage;1 G.,first groove,etc.The actor is supposedto be facing the audience.  \n# INDIAN DAYS\n\nSCENE:An open place in the forest.Ordinary woodland set.Back drop if possible depicts the forest in the distance with a riverwinding among the trees.Also if possible there should be roundopening at the top of the drop to represent the moon.At R.are anumber of trees representing the woods.At R.C.is a large flat stumpof a tree,or a portion of a tree trunk would do.At L.is a suggestionof an Indian encampment,a portion of a wigzvam shoving,theentrance fap open.(A piece of sacking daubed with red paint woulddo.)Also up L.,apparently suspended from a tree,a rope_swingmade to look like a grape vine.This swing used by SINGING BIRD insong\"Tell Me,\"but need not be especially noticeable except when spotlight is on it,or swing could be hooked in place while stage is darkduring“South Wind”number.A more effective opening could besecured by having a green strip about two feet high to represent thegrassy river bank,stretched R.to L.up stage about three feet in frontof back drop.Just back of this strip could be fastened canvas shapedlike the side of a birch canoe with Indian decorations on it in brightcolors,the canoe long enough to take in the warriors and girls incouples,kneeling and bending back and forth as if paddling as thecurtain rises.After which they rise and pretend to step ashore,andcome down stage singing as indicated.  \nAs the curtain rises the singing of male and female voices isheard off R.,growing louder and louder as if coming nearer.Or ofin the canoe as above noted,the chorus would be on at the curtain.The singing is as follows:  \nCHANT.(Female voices behind curtain.)Curtain rises.  \n# CANOE SONG.\n\nMEN—  \nMoonbeams glancing on the stream,  \nAnd paddles twirling all a-gleam.  \nHissing goes the long canoe  \nAs speeded by its sturdy crew.  \nSway,ye warriors,to and fro  \nAs swiftly toward the camp we go.  \n6INDIAN DAYS.Book and Lyries byT.LSAPPINGTON.HENRY B.VINCENT.Women's Voices Behind Curtaing.Unaceompanied.  \nPrelude.  \nINDIAN DAYS.  \nCanoe Song.  \nAllegro Moderato.  \nby………  its stur-dy  \ncrew………………………Sway,ye 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