Several authors, including an economics professor, are pretty sure they did. Even the snooty-booty New Yorker has noticed, although New York is far more famous for “corporate pirates” who would have been useful to their high-seas counterparts only as ballast or sharkbait. (BTW, many thanks to Keith Nagel, author of highly useful patent-perusal […]
This is a Haudenosaunee wampum belt. The Haudenosaunee (”Longhouse Builders,” aka the Six Nations of the Iroquois* Confederacy) used wampum (beads carved from the purple-and-white-striped shell of a quahog clam) for many purposes. Wampum belts weren’t for holding an individual’s trousers up, but for memorializing important agreements, metaphorically minimizing potentially uncomfortable […]
Should Living Human Beings Ever Be Cultural Property? [12.08.07] Subsection Arrr: Did pirates really have Codes? [15.07.07] For US Independence Day: Thanks, Haudenosaunee [04.07.07] Your 15MB of Fame: Schlemiels, Schlimazels, and Schadenfreude [06.06.07] For Memorial Day: Cross Purposes in San Diego [28.05.07] Send In the “GIs”: The U.S. Defends its Vinous Territory [23.05.07] For National Maritime Day: Whose Turf is Under the Surf? [22.05.07] Curse of the Atocha Part 3: Collateral Damage [22.05.07] (Woo-hoo, my favorite part!)
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