Word: cob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jack Guy Folk Toys are little constructions of wood, corn cob, and cane which come in little bright boxes, either already assembled or as kits. In the shop, they were stacked up under a couple of large color photos of Jack Guy himself, wearing an outlandish shirt of more colors and materials than Joseph's coat, bibbed over-alls, and an immense sort of Hoss Cartwright style black hat with bead-work band. The hat suggested a renegade Indian trader. Jack Guy's hair is cut rather too neatly for a hill person, but his face is pretty convincingly weathered...
...short length of cane something like an Indian peace pipe with a wire basket instead of a bowl. The basket has two wire rings, one higher than the other. Hanging from one of the rings is a little ball made from the light core of a corn cob, with a wire hook in it. The idea is to gently support the ball with your breath, and raise it from one ring to the other and back again without it falling...
...grandfather, he had big chest, small stomach," the craggy-faced Bad Cob said. "I have small chest, big stomach. Too much of the government's canned food...
Throughout the takeover, Bad Cob stayed in his tepee, even during a blinding snowstorm that struck the Dakota reservation in the third week of the occupation. He moved to the trading post, the nerve-center of the village, for only one night, when winds caused snow drifts up to five feet...
...Cob is the second-to-last generation of Bad Cobs. "My son, who is 50 years old, is only a young buck," he explained. In Oglala slang, a "young buck" is an unmarried male...