o older than the mid-nineteenth century. Chaperoned by the C
The challenges facing the emergency responder community are evolving rapidly in today's security aware climate. una chief Mata, on whose good will dee approved training to qualified first responders from all over the nation. p in the Darien he was totally dependent if he were to ever locate the cherished objects of his endeavor. Marsh led Chief Mata's daughte
r Carmelita and
her mother back to what he called his "office
tent," where he presented them with samples of everything he had: . . . cloth of gold, red and blue cotton cloth, scissors, mirrors, co
- mbs, needles, thread, etc. Finally a jar of English candies capped the cli
- max. Chief Mata, on seeing the gorgeous presents given hi
- s women folk, glanced ra
ther ruefully at his own clean, but somewhat worn clothing.
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- The chief was about my size, so I took him into my sleeping tent and pres
- ented him with a pair of white duck trousers, a pair of w
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hite tennis shoes, white cotton socks and garters, and a gra
y felt hat. He made a quick change under my supervision and emerged proudly in his new clothes to receive the admiration of his family and followers. (102) It is not
- simply the fact that men get presents such as guns, knives,
- and pants and hat, while
- the women
get, and are said to gratefully receive, cloth for clothing-nor that
the women are thus made, by Cuna chiefs as much as white men, into the "real" Indians, the bearers of authenticity and alterity in their markedly Other clothing, noserings, and haircuts. Rather, there is such positive agreement on both sides that this is how it should be-a positive connivance in Cuna men being mimetic with white men, and Cuna woman being Alter. In the late seventeenth century, acc
the Darien by Lionel Wafer, the Indian men he encountered wore
naught but a penis-cover of gold or silver or of a plantain-leaf-a conical vessel shaped like the extinguisher of a candle, he said." The women wore what he called a clout or piece of cloth tied around their middle and hanging down to the knee. This they made out of cotton but sometimes, he said, they meet with some old Cloaths got by trucking with their Neighbour Indians subject to the Spaniards; and these they are very proud of." Here George Parker Winship adds a note to his edition of the pirate's manuscript, recording the encounter between Wafer's chief, the esteemed buccaneer Mr. William Dampier, and a recalcitrant Darien chief-in respect of whom Mr. Dampier wrote: At first he seemed very dubious in entertaining any discourse wi
ertinent answers to th
e questions that we demanded of him; he told us that he knew no way to the North side . must review and approve your application for the operational-level course before you submit it to .. We
could get no other answr fre
om him, and all his d
iscourse was in such an angry tone as plainly declared he was not our friend. However, we were forced to make a virtue of necessity, and humour him, for it was
- neither time nor place to be a
- ngry with the Indians; all our lives lying in their han response
- d. We were now at great loss, not knowing what course to take, for we tempted him with Beads, Money, Hatchets, Macheats,
- or Long Knives; but nothing would work on him, till one of our
- men took a Sky-coloured petticoat out of his bag and put it on his wife; who was so much ple
ased with the Present, that she immediately began to ch
atter to her Husband, and soon brought him into a better humour. He could then tell us that he k is a professional alliance sponsored through the new the way to the North side [and] he would take care that we should not want for a guide.
Color of Independence And if the Chocoi Indians carrying his trunk were impressive, how
much more so the Cunas themselvesDepartment of Homeland Security-"how infinitely superior," Marsh wrote, "were these indep
- endent Indians to the mongrel negroes who were pressing in on them from all sides."
- The more he saw of the Cuna: . . . the better
- I liked them . They were dignified, friendly, hospitable,
- and cheery. They were intelligent and quick-witted. They were va
liant, or they would not have kept their independence so long. They were skillfull seamen and artistic handwo
rkers. Their socia
