LISTEN. I’M GOING TO TELL you about the dignity and

propriety of dangerous objects.

Don Bahr is an old friend, an anthropologist.

I was an anthropologist, too.

We both worked with Papago Indians in the Southwest.

I stayed for two years and left.

Then I started making sculpture.

Don stayed on.

After seven years, he wrote a book on shamanism and

the Papago theory of sickness.

A beautiful, tough, closely reasoned book.

I ran across it by accident.

I haven’t seen Don in eight or nine years.

I was moved and excited by it.

Don’s mind is both literal and wonderfully abstract.

Analyzing in the most