una man. When Marsh fir
st reached the S
and met Chief Ina Pagina, the latter was wearing a white shirt and trousers. Others state that Cuna men were wearing pants and shirts from "Viaorian times."" The French naval official Armando Reclus, who visited some Cunas along the Paya River in the late 1870s, said that almost all the men wore trousers and a cotton shirt of U.S. make, and elaborated at some length that the visito
r who expected in the midst of these wilds to encounter Indians in feathers, as they were at the time of the European Conquest of the Amclick heree
ricas
, woul
d here suffer terrib
le disenchantment. Was th
is get-up in European trousers and shi
rt (perhaps with tie) Mr. Marsh's di
sguise, crouching in h
is war canoe mimicking an Indian mimicking a
white man? Or was he perhaps
dressed in drag, not mimicki
ng the m
Message:
en but the wome
n-the overwh
elmingly dominant referent of "Indian dress"-instead
finally, for two glor
ious moments, m
imesis and alteri