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Category: Anthropology

Follies of the Mad Men #44

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[From Life magazine for September 30 1940.]

Either a 20th-century man's shoe has been transported through time back to pre-Columbian America, confounding the primitive redksins, or else some 20th-century Native Americans on some especially traditional and cloistered reservation somewhere are incredibly ignorant.

Or, some Madison Avenue genius thought this was brilliant.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Nov 17, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Shoes, Anthropology, 1940's, Time-travel, Native Americans
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