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he presented to the queen, but to see a good deal of London, and, be feted and go to the theatre and go to Bedlam, the madhouse, and see, in other words, to
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see the younger side of urban England at the time, as well as the grand residences of the nobility. So let's start with the first gentleman over here, and here's a guy who is
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dubbed King of the Makwas or Mohawks, okay so the Mohawks are one of the five nations of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee Confederacy. And phonetically his name is Sagi-
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yif-pag-tya-if-toh. Mouthful. Okay, we know him today as a man simply called Brand. But let's look at how John Burrell pictured him. First of all, he's got to be very
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exotic to the English who were encountering him. The tattoos are elaborate, and they cover much of his upper body. And what are the tattoos there to represent? Want to guess?
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His achievements as a warrior. If you look at a distinguished member of our military today and all the so-called fruit salad, so you know where they've been and what they've done
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and the awards that they've won. Well, this tattooing is an indication that this guy is a warrior, and if we didn't know that already, he's standing there with a musket, a
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rifle, which indicates that he's a pretty good shot. He's got a powder horn under his right shoulder, and he's dressed in an interesting way, as are all of these gentlemen. Now
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can we imagine in the year 1710, in what was then a very sparsely populated region of North America and upstate New York, that the leaders of the indigenous community went around
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on a daily basis clad in red cloaks and shorty togas? Not so much. Not so much. What does look to be authentic is the embroidered object used here as a belt which probably wasn't
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intended to be a belt, but there are other things going on in this as well. Why is he dressed that way? And the answer is that he was dressed by a customer who worked with the
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portrait artist. So it isn't as if he stumbled off the ship, you know, wearing this, and a-ha, let's get our digital camera out and capture this guy.[Unintelligible] Pardon me?
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[Unintelligible] It could have, well, this is the equivalent of a kilt, thank you Paul. Now we see lurking on his left side, a shadowy sense down toward the bottom, an
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animal. Can anyone make the animal out?