Therese O. Deming and Edwin W. Deming

Mr. Deming was then a young artist.  He wished to paint pictures that would show the manners and customs of the old-time Indians.  Every picture in this book was painted by Mr. Deming from sketches made while he lived in a pueblo.  Boys and girls who visit museums will sometimes find larger pictures that Mr. Deming has made of some of these scenes.

Mrs. Deming, too, became familiar with the lives of the Pueblo Indian people, who were her friends and neighbors.  The Indians taught her the meanings of the many feasts and dances that occupied a large part of their time.  She also learned their ways of expressing thoughts.  In a diary, she kept notes of what she learned about Indian life.  With the aid of these notes she has here described what she saw and heard.

-From the Book INDIANS OF THE PUEBLOS by Therese O. Deming and Edwin W. Deming