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| GENUINE RED CLIFF OJIBWE INDIAN DOLL... |
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| ...MADE IN SOUTH AFRICA |
Sunday, 8:30 AM. 62 degrees F at the ferry dock, 60 on the back porch. Wind SSW, calm with light gusts. The sky is clear, the humidity 81%. The barometer is falling, now at 30.06", predicting chances of a thunderstorm sometime Tuesday or Tuesday evening. Yesterday was beautiful, and today should be a repeat performance.
As P. T. Barnum once famously said, "There's a sucker born every minute." This sucker was born a whole lot of minutes ago.
For a number of years now I have been collecting American Indian dolls; Hopi, Navajo, Ojibwe, Iroquois, Seminole and others. I am not a serious collector, just an amateur, but I should have known better when I bought the doll pictured at one of the local shops. It was at a small table with jewelry and other items from the Red Cliff Rez. I should have recognized it as not Indian, but it had some O.K. bead work and was rather interesting. I paid $30 for it.
On closer examination at home I found a hidden tag that identified it as made in South Africa.
I was chagrined. I was a SUCKER!!!
It is Red Cliff Pow Wow weekend. I usually drop in. If I do, I won't be buying any dolls.
As P. T. Barnum once famously said, "There's a sucker born every minute." This sucker was born a whole lot of minutes ago.
For a number of years now I have been collecting American Indian dolls; Hopi, Navajo, Ojibwe, Iroquois, Seminole and others. I am not a serious collector, just an amateur, but I should have known better when I bought the doll pictured at one of the local shops. It was at a small table with jewelry and other items from the Red Cliff Rez. I should have recognized it as not Indian, but it had some O.K. bead work and was rather interesting. I paid $30 for it.
On closer examination at home I found a hidden tag that identified it as made in South Africa.
I was chagrined. I was a SUCKER!!!
It is Red Cliff Pow Wow weekend. I usually drop in. If I do, I won't be buying any dolls.
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