Native American Items For Sale

In response to this, a co-worker said, that's why women hate men.

"[The auction] also included a Northern Plains beaded hide woman's dress, which sold for pound stg. 270,000, almost three times the estimate. The dress was originally acquired from a native man who stripped his wife on the spot after being offered a bottle of rum in exchange."

Well, neither the buyer or seller come out looking good in that dress.

"In 1859, James Carnegie, 32, the then Earl of Southesk, travelled to Canada in search of "good sport" after being advised that it would improve his health after the death of his wife.
An eccentric figure, he dressed in the buckskin of the frontiersman but was accompanied by a vast retinue who carried an India-rubber bath for him and included a gamekeeper from his estate in Scotland and an Iroquois cook."

Everyone should travel with an India-rubber bath.

"The earl became one of the first Europeans to explore the Rockies, and his legacy is recorded in an Alberta river, a mountain peak and a mountain pass that bear his name."

Oh for the days of good old colonialism.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,19107850,00.html