I apologize for the glaring flash in the center of the photo, someone needs to cough up some dough for a scanner. The woman in the rocking chair is my Cherokee great-great grandmother. Her husband, a Scottish farmer, stands behind at their farmhouse in northern Oklahoma. Please tell me all those people didn't live in that tiny shack, packed in like clowns in a VW Bug. I guess having a black dog is part of my heritage. But my question is, why didn't any of that dominant gene Injun skin trickle down so that I might have just a pinch of melanin in my otherwise Anglo body? Even grandpappy is pretty dark.
Anyone out there know period costume well enough to say what year that is?
4 comments:
1860-1910 I'd say...fashions were relatively static and wonderfully utilitarian in those days.
As for the skin tone, I wonder as well. I'm bloody half-mexican/apache, yet I'm as white and pale as non-fat milk.
100W light bulbs could give me a sunburn.
need i say something to represent the irish?
jt - you mean in regards to the milky whiteness, which is indeed where mine originates? (tho' personally i'm more interested in the outcome of your sorority weekend.) speak man, speak.
huck - fashion seems to be in stasis in the country generally. utilitarian yess, sometimes even more beautiful and elegant than our clothing today. but those button up collars? no thank you. i could definitely get into some Edwardian costume, but not the Victorian holdovers.
lol... to many degrees of melanine-priviledge to aspire for, but all nature will allow you is a half descent sun tan.
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