Word: buckskin
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...what European artist, for instance, could develop a more concise epigram of a grizzly bear's humped, sullen power than the unknown Tlingit carver who hewed one (see cut below) full-face, with shell teeth, on a house wall in Sitka? In the same way, there are painted buckskin coats and drums in the Whitney whose spontaneous, eccentric beauty of drawing is little short of breathtaking, while the bizarre and untrammeled inventiveness of some Eskimo masks would have been the envy of Miro or Picasso...
...will also find tips in Rags on where to buy surplus U.S. Navy nurses' uniforms, French navy underwear, Australian army shorts, handmade American Indian buckskin boots, T shirts appliqued with a Flash Gordon thunderbolt, sheets imprinted with "acts of love," and the "perfect confrontation accessory"-imitation police truncheons "in gentle pastel shades...
...Indian to "savages with no more rights than a bear." More softly, she concedes: "I don't like being a clown or a militant, but sometimes you have to break this conspiracy of silence." Another angry woman, Kahn Tineta Horn, effectively uses a trim figure in a tight buckskin dress to gain television attention for protest demonstrations. But sex is not her only weapon; she has been arrested for carrying a knife and for interfering with police...
Among the Harvard personalities participating in the rally at the Washington Monument were George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, who spoke to the crowd, and buckskin-clad, former Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary. "Out of sight," Leary commented...
THERE were drag queens mingling with society matrons, rock 'n' roll blasting through the halls where Rembrandt and Velasquez once reigned in hushed glory, and costumes ranging from fringed buckskin to China Machado chic. "Peace Now" buttons blossomed on satin evening gowns. Pamphlets denouncing David Rockefeller, Viet Nam and the art market were dispensed along with cocktails and tiny sandwiches. Outside, pickets protested the lack of black and women artists in the show. Manhattan's venerable Metropolitan Museum had never before been host to anything quite like it, a fact that was duly lamented by diehard traditionalists...