ThursdaySeptember062007

Miskito Indians: Not Just Newsfodder, But Hair Product Originators

Miskito_Hair_Product_9_6_07.jpg Oh, the wonders of Google image search. The ad at left popped up while we rooted around the internets for something to accompany today’s Felix-related, Miskito Indians post. We’re no anthropologists, but something tells us she ain’t a member of that particular tribe. (It’s called her complexion.) But, boy, does this model realistically portray the people who are currently bobbing in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve got so much to offer!

Though many of the region’s Indian tribes have less than flattering names — Paya means “brute” while Jicaque and Sumu mean “uncivilized person” — the Miskito Indians are referred to as Tawira, or “the people of beautiful hair.”™ The secret to their beautiful hair is Ojon™, a rich palm nut oil extracted from the tropical Ojon™ tree.

We can’t decide which is more absurd here: a gratuitous use of the trademark symbol or, you know, the whole thing given recent events.

Ojon [Planet Beauty]
Earlier, Hurricane Felix Aftermath Includes Miskito Indians Clinging To Random Shit

Comments

According to an old issue of Lucky I just re-read last week, the creator of that product used to get sent bottles of that oil from her grandmother in Honduras. Somehow, I doubt her grandma was paying $60 a bottle for that “rich palm nut oil.”

And why do they get to trademark the name of the tree?

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