Kilted inheritance? How true is it really?

[SlackerDrummer]

Actually to are partially correct. Native Americans have been making complex and beautiful beadwork far before even the Vikings landed on this continent. Glass beads were traded from Europe to the natives but before that Native Americans were carving beads out of shells, coral, bone, teeth and even stones and metal.

I think we're getting too far off topic, but there is really no comparison of the earlier beadwork to that done later with glass beads and which today classically exemplifies the various traditions of the native inhabitants of this continent.

These are gauchos in Argentina. They (amongst others) would disagree that the style of dress you previously posted and "cowboy culture" is purely North American.

And yet the differences between the gauchos of Argentina and American cowboys are distinct to the discerning eye.

[Bugbear]

I think we're getting too far off topic, but there is really no comparison of the earlier beadwork to that done later with glass beads and which today classically exemplifies the various traditions of the native inhabitants of this continent.


And yet the differences between the gauchos of Argentina and American cowboys are distinct to the discerning eye.

I'm not sure traditions respect national lines on maps all the time...

The traditions evolved from the bead work of the First Peoples and the European settlers and traders; a symbiosis of sorts in traditions.

But most traditions evolve... the result is part of my American Southwest culture.


A Highland example would be, of course, the belted plaid replacing the brat as a form of over clothing, like a kind of overcoat, and now the kilt is what it is today,, quite a bit different.