Good catch, Tom! That article is a big, big clue to figuring out Joni's major themes in The Hissing of Summer Lawns.
I think that magazines don't run wierd articles like that anymore because there's nothing "old", primitive anymore. It's all been gobbled up, as they discussed 27 years ago in that National Geographic. >>>>>> I happened to flick through an old National Geographic. It's Vol. 147, No.2, from February 1975. There's a fascinating - and deeply strange - pair of articles and accompanying pics by one W. Jesco von Puttkamer (crazy name, crazy guy!) concerning two "stone age" Brazilian Indian tribes, the Kreen-Akarores and their apparent old enemies, the Txukahameis. <edit> And, on pages 272-273 is....yep...the original photograph that a certain Ms Mitchell must have traced for use on the collage/illustration on the HOSL cover of the Txukahameis Indians (plus, second from right, a stripe-faced visiting Suya Indian) hauling a giant Anaconda out of the water.<edit> Man....why don't magazines run features that strange anymore? Best, Tom R>>>>>>>>>>>>
