Arkansas Toothpick

Cartoon showing Confederate president Jefferson Davis wearing a jacket and long skirt and holding a Bowie knife, labeled “Arkansas tooth-pick”; circa 1860s.

Drawing of white man in flowing jacket and skirt holding large knife. At the bottom it says "Is not your Government more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children?"

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Media

Time Period

Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

Category

Folk Art / Folklore and Folklife

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