Word: beadwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the Victorian house, Maass finds "a happy, hide-and-seek quality of surprise." Stripped of its overgrowth of large-figured wallpaper, overstuffed chairs, marble-topped tables, potted plants, shellwork, beadwork, fringed cushions, petitpoint mottoes, bric-a-brac, fretwork brackets and tiered whatnots, "the Victorian parlor with its parquet floor, high ceiling, tall windows and ample fireplace emerges as a very handsome room...
American Indians are on the warpath against cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have come reports of made-in-Japan totem poles and ivory carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted...
This involves a tricky operation. At this time of the year, the Gila monsters (thick-bodied venomous lizards with skins like orange and black beadwork) avoid the summer heat, come out only at night. So Woodin hunts them at night by jeep. After the sun has set, the monsters like to lie on the pavement, enjoying its lingering warmth. Woodin steps up to the beaded, venomous patient, pins its neck down with a forked stick, and, with practiced skill, slips a specially made, quick-registering clinical thermometer into the beast's rectum...