Whiffen

Beth Whiffen, a regular contributor to The Inside Source, eBay's digital style magazine, recently chatted with Loermann about the Leigh Lezark collaboration, personal style and girls gone wild.

Meredith Barnett: Indie Label Surface to Air's Women's Designer on Collaborating with Leigh Lezark Meredith Barnett 2011

Beth Whiffen, a regular contributor to The Inside Source, eBay's digital style magazine, recently chatted with Loermann about the Leigh Lezark collaboration, personal style and girls gone wild.

Meredith Barnett: Indie Label Surface to Air's Women's Designer on Collaborating with Leigh Lezark Meredith Barnett 2011

It was a phrase, Schultes now realized, that applied not to the Witoto but to the white traders who had, among other things, cooperated with Whiffen and made his journey possible.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The British army officer and explorer Thomas Whiffen, whose book Schultes had read, wrote that the forest was innately malevolent, a horrible, most evil-disposed enemy.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Whiffen, who traveled the Putumayo only a generation before Schultes, claimed to have come upon cannibal feasts, “prisoners eaten to the last bit, a mad festival of savagery … men whose eyes glare, nostrils quiver … an all pervading delirium.”

One River Wade Davis 1996

He thought of the books he had read before going to the Putumayo, Whiffen and Robuchon, the German anthropologist Konrad Preuss.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Whiffen, who traveled the Putumayo only a generation before Schultes, claimed to have come upon cannibal feasts, “prisoners eaten to the last bit, a mad festival of savagery … men whose eyes glare, nostrils quiver … an all pervading delirium.”

One River Wade Davis 1996

Schultes had first read of yoco in Northwest Amazons, the journal of Captain Thomas Whiffen, a British soldier who had spent the year 1908 in the lower Putumayo.

One River Wade Davis 1996

It was a phrase, Schultes now realized, that applied not to the Witoto but to the white traders who had, among other things, cooperated with Whiffen and made his journey possible.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Whiffen described Indian rituals as a “mad festival of savagery.”

One River Wade Davis 1996