Broken Ground by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780295805467
Publisher: University of Washington Press

She had gone to bed and he'd come here to the couch. He'd set up the lamp and waited for sleep to carry him to morning when he would get in the company pickup and drive back to Rome. He tipped up his book and read one last paragraph. His eyelids grew heavy even before he finished it, and when he awoke to the hard, rainless, early-morning light he found himself precisely there—on his back with the book on his chest, the lamp still burning:

The Paiutes wore little clothing. They had bulrush sandals and the rabbit skin robes that they might wear around camp. In the cold men might wear buckskin jackets and leggings. The women wore an apron of sorts, either of buckskin or woven material, which, wrote Fray Escalante in 1776, “hardly covered what cannot be looked upon without peril.” Much of the time the men wore not a stitch and the women just those aprons. Genitalia had not been coined for them, and the women's apron, I would presume, was born of need—the great openness of the female genital region. Something that flapped kept the bugs off. When the white man came (or when I myself came to the history, thinking weirdly this way), the Paiutes took to clothing, partly, no doubt, at missionary urging, but largely, perhaps, out of a long unsatisfied yearning for adornment. These costumes were often remarkable, especially in the men: Army coats and flat-brimmed “agency” hats, trousers and breechclouts both, boots, feathers, watchchains, buckles and buttons. By taking on the adornment they coined themselves at last. It was so that they came out of the desert into the imaginary life.

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