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Article: INDIAN-MOTIF SOUVENIRS FOR SALE - RIGHT DOWN TO THE TEPEE.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 17, 1990
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Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer
A trash-talking salesman glided into The Tepee and offered Paul Stehr a good deal on a life-size porcelain Indian.
Six of the nine seats in the salesman's station wagon were occupied by artificial, stoic-faced Native Americans. That left room for the driver, his wife, and, just for the hell of it, a porcelain pirate. Stehr was mightily tempted.
Behind his station wagon, the salesman pulled a trailer filled with the rest of his inanimate tribe, dozens of latter-day cigar-store Indians, including pint-sized papooses, hanging from the trailer walls.
"No way am I gonna hang a baby," said Stehr, who settled ...