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Tribal Jewelry, Alaska to Panama - Fewer Intact Finds, Prices Due to Rise

Tribal jewelry remnants along with tools and human bones tell the story of Asian coastal peoples coming up over the Alaskan land bridge between ice ages, and how these waves of Asian peoples became less Asian in appearance the farther they advanced into the Americas. The oldest human artifacts are at Old Crow in the Yukon, near the entry point onto the North American continent, and these peoples pushed down the east side of the west coast icefield in a gap, and this language group advanced as far south as the Mexican border, as it includes the Navaho and Apache tribes.

Later arrivals created a cultural gap between north Athabaskan language families in Alaska and Canada, and those in Arizona and New Mexico. At at rate, these people moved inland and stayed there. The next arrivals from Asia were island hoppers and likely bypassed the receding icefields first on Vancouver Island in what is now the southern half of Canada’s province of British Columbia. From here tribes migrated out and down coastal and interior areas.

From these points south, through Washington and Idaho to Oregon and California are many waves of differing language groups jostling for their space. This continued until the continent was fully populated: the last of these Asian arrivals in the period 10-30,000 year ago, were the Iniut-Eskimo peoples, who still all look quite similiar and share languages, and who took over the areas above the tree line around the Arctic.

Sign language is thought to have evolved around the Rio Grande region as a means for tribes to understand enough to trade essential goods with each other. And gradually, cultures settled into routines, boundaries, adapting to thrive on local food and resources, trading far away goods. Sea shells dug up in desert digs among human remains and tribal jewelry are found often, proof of an intricate trading system, in which the wearer could behold items from a culture they might never see.

And these cultures had evolved their social intelligence and worked out ways to work as many units often, yet had worked out a system of cooperation to allow rare artifacts to be where they caused awe and inspiration. So we see coastal Haida natives near the Alaskan border evolve a maritime culture, and like the Viking in Europe, attack in slave raiding parties on southern tribes living easy. It may have been ever thus, hardy northern people attack those rich and living soft.

Egypt had three thousand years of sublime peace and prosperity. Until those damned Assyrians on their horses came out of Asia on their horses with their swords, soft civilizations have felt nervous ever since. Watch yon Cassius, he has a lean and hungry look. If there are any good tribal artifacts still out there, they are as often not being crushed under Bull. Dozer One and Bull Dozer Two, are busy out there, to find metals and minerals and oil in the ground. Dust to dust, ash to ashes, but.

If and as we can, we do need to save and learn. About ourselves. About who we all are. Connected, is what. Common parents back in Africa, how we look depends which way our ancestors turned when they crossed that same Sinai the the Assyrians roared out of, Moses wandered lost in for all those years, tripping over tribal artifacts. There is more history now, perhaps fewer artifacts and tribal jewelry. But awareness of rareness can be liberating. Save and be saved. There is an Indiana Jones in us all: if we can’t quite crack the whip on the site, we can click in and see what he found. And not have to go down into that pit with the snakes. Now that is win win.

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Fewer tribal jewelry finds may be more common as development and mining tear up ancient sites, meaning we must get by with fewer items of the past.

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American Antiques, Legacies - How Ben Franklin’s Humor Was Almost The Death of Him

American antiques humor has been the salvation of Americans since revolutionary days, at least after and around being banned in Boston. Benjamin Franklin was a master of taking the basic ingredient of humor- the unexpected after a series of logical expected events, and turning a phrase and idea into a major social confrontation, yet causing the victims of the humor to laugh at themselves. What Franklin had done was with the tacit approval of my ancestor, at whose estate this incident happened.

In response to an Edict from King George 111 being posted in all town squares in all 13 colonies, Franklin had hopped on the next ship to London with his folios of pen quills, ink and fine papers. As my ancestor Sir Francis was Post Master General of the British Empire, and had appointed Dr. Franklin to the post of Post Master General of North America, they had become dear friends. In this case, Franklin reported directly to Sir Francis that rioting was breaking out in Philadelphia, mobs with torches and pitchforks gathering as he left.

In England, at the West Wycome Estate of Sir Francis, Dr. Franklin soon had before him many of the British Cabinet, at the invitation of Sir Francis. At this meeting, Franklin read out his improvsed Edict from the King of Prussia. To the shock of the cabinet members present, Dr. Franklin revealed he had intercepted Official Papers which he grandly presented, titled An Edict of the King of Prussia. Dr. Franklin said this Edict was at present being delivered to the German Hessian troops in America, in which they were to turn on their English allies.

In fact, all civil rights in England were now restricted, as are public gatherings of more than five persons: all muskets must be turned in. Sound familiar? At any rate, cries of attack Berlin to never trusted those Germans were being shouted, until. until one, then two, then all of the excited gentlemen noticed that Dr. Franklin and Sir Francis were smiling at each other from across the room: it was a hoax! All red faced anger had to be allowed to fizzle and sizzle out of gentlemen who had been so obviously tricked from defending to being angered by the same edict, if worded against rather in favor of their lives.

Those gentlemen now had to admit they had been tricked into walking in American mocassins for those short moments. His enforced trip to a cell in the Tower was almost worth it, as King George had not found much to smile about in this insult on the good relationship he enjoyed with his cousin Prussian kings and princes. In fact from these cousins would come the young 18 year old Victoria in 1837, promising to do good. This was a very new, higher standard to kingly or queenly requirements, after the madness of George 111 and foppish folly of George 1V.

But this humor was treasonous in the 1770’s, and Sir Francis was soon pleading to King George for a pardon that Dr. Franklin was a harmless eccentric scientist of importance to his age, not a rebel. He was both. At any rate, as soon as the King grumped well be gone with him, before the King could change his mind, which he did often, Sir Francis had a ship to the Tower Exit wharf and ensured that Dr. Franklin was safely on his way to America quicker than the King could say off with his head.

This application of humor was a brave, reckless use of humor that almost cost the joker- in this case Dr. Benjamin Franklin- his life. But he was in fact on an urgent cause on behalf of a nation that did not yet exist: except in the minds of an exceptional few. As he was Post Master General of North America, he saw a mighty English speaking North American nation over much of the continent in his framework to the future. Ronald Reagan pushed this concept forward when he promoted NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement Zone as a way to create a self sufficient super nation.

Dr. Franklin would be very proud, he would expect the right to be Post Master General if he ever comes back. Expect him to present himself with some prank towards the most stuffed shirts in the room. American antiques history and humor as in America, not humour as in Britain, Canada, Australia should reign supreme. Or have the Yanks changed that to rain supreem? Only all our daughters? Sigh.

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The healing power of an unexpected laugh during a tense situation can relax you, your mates, your heart; and increases your social intelligence.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures politics to humor; some that make us more loving savior of motherland,less warrior, and how to best show that at
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