1. This is Buffy Sainte-Marie.  She’s playing the mouth bow.  There isn’t much else to say about it, except that rest of this list.

2. The mouth bow is longer than it is wide, but we’re all going to avoid discussion of the phallus here, thankyouverymuch.

3. Pete Seeger is in top form in this video. Look how happy he is when he makes up a verse about the mouth bow towards the end.  You can’t fake that kind of folksy enthusiasm for your own jokes.

4. Buffy is pretty hott, with or without the mouth bow.

5. Buffy is really hot, even when she kisses a horse puppet thusly:

6. I wish I had a mouth bow, mouth harp, singing saw, etc. and then I would go see Buffy and say “Look at me play my mouth bow, mouth harp, singing saw, etc.” or something like that and she would be impressed by a member of my generation’s interest in mouth bows, mouth harps, singing saws etc and she would shake my hand in a kind of masculine but still really hott feminine way like a mature woman who knows what’s up and she’d invite me in for herbal tea and I’d tell her about my trip to the east coast or wherever she lives and I’d ask her about her First Nation outreach and education projects and be really interesting when I talk about Native issues and maybe she’d let me lay my head in her lap and she’ll stroke my hair and tell me she likes my long beard.

7. I wonder why Pete Seeger’s banjo looks so long.  It is a really long banjo.  His right hand technique is also really interesting to me.  It looks like a kind of  cross between scruggs and frailin’ styles of playing.

8. Sometimes I wish it were forty years ago.