ue and very modest. The women wear a blouse gayly decorated in many colors, a lon
- g appliqued skirt, and plenty
of golden
- ear-rings, nose-rings, beads, etc. I took the gifts ash
- ore and began distributing them to the women. (202) Then the Indians
- brought him another white Indian-a little naked white boy about e
ight years old with golden hair and blue-green and - brown eyes. The chief made a formal present of him. (202) Marsh was now on a roller-coaster of mimesis an
- d alterity. He "casually" mentions he wants to "buy pottery, arrows, sp
ears, wooden images, baskets etc.": In no time I was mobbed by hundreds of men, women, and
children bringing me all sorts of things. I got barrels full- or call elaborate, ar
