Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cowboys are puttin 'leather and turquoise...
...Tonto time. City dudes are sporting wide-brimmed cowpoke sombreros (often with Indian accents of feathers and turquoise-inlaid headbands), yoke shirts, off-the-range Levi's, brass- or gold-buckled belts and high-steppin' boots of alligator or snakeskin. Some real rootin' tooters tote leather holsters (empty) and cartridge belts. The lady on the Marlboro man's arm is apt to resemble Pocahontas, in a fringed T shirt, multicolored headband, squash-blossom necklace, beaded deerskin bag with dangling mink paws and -the essential accessory-white, fringed moccasins. Some squaws without reservations...
...feathers (available at Manhattan's Tepee Town for only $3.98). The most sought-after cowhide moccasins, by Minnetonka of Minneapolis, cost less than $20 at most American stores but sell for $60 in Paris. (They will be available in four colors this fall.) On the other hand, ceremonial leather shirts copied from traditional tribal garb and laced together with abalone shells, deer teeth and ermine tails, are priced as high as $1,800 in the U.S. Cutter Bill Western World in Dallas sells diamond-beaded hatbands for $32,000 apiece and ermine-and-crocodile boots...
...sequined gowns and colored headbands mingled with the scarlet robes of cardinals and the purple of bishops under the dome of the basilica. The Indians, representing 35 tribes from ten states and Canada, came bearing gifts for Pope John Paul II, including a peace pipe and beaded leather moccasins. But the purpose of their visit to Rome was to celebrate the beatification of Kateri Tekakwitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks," a 17th century Indian woman who converted to Christianity and clung to her faith resolutely, despite tribal torments, until her death...
...years ago inmates at Tucker State prison in Arkansas ran the place. Prisoners convicted of murder toted guns, bullied their fellows into the fields at dawn and laughed them back to their cells at dusk. These prisoner/guards--called trusties--beat other inmates with a devilish tool called a strap, a leather slab with a wooden handle that, when handled "properly," can knock a victim six inches into the air. They tortured them by running pins and razor blades along the soft flesh under their fingernails. They gang-raped them in the barred dormitories where each prisoner slept with an arm flung...