Bolo Tie – Bearing Housing – Turbo Actuator

Origins
Silversmith Victor Cedarstaff of Wickenburg, Arizona, claims to have invented the bolo tie in the late 1940s, and later patented his slide design.
According to an article in Sunset:
Victor Cedarstaff was riding his horse one day when his hat blew off. Wary of losing the silver-trimmed hatband, he slipped it around his neck. His companion joked, “That’s a nice-looking tie you’re wearing, Vic.” An idea incubated, and Cedarstaff soon fashioned the first bola tie (the name is derived from boleadora, an Argentine lariat).
Boleadoras or bolas (from Spanish bola, “ball”) are throwing weapons made of weights attached to the end of cords.
It is also said that the bolo tie is a North American pioneer creation that dates back to between 1866 and 1886. There is a bolo tie on display at a trading post in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, said to date back that far.[citation needed]
In 2007 the Bola tie was named the official tie of Texas by the Texas Legislature.
See also
Bolas
References
^ Richardson’s Secret Weapon: The Bolo Tie – The Sleuth
^ Cross, Robert: Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, Manchester University Press, ISBN 0719062543, p. 36
^ Ribeiro, Aileen: Dress and Morality, Berg Publishers 2003, ISBN 185973782X, p. 164
^ U.S. Patent number 896217, filed May 24, 1954, issued July 28, 1959, to Victor Emmanual Cedarstaff, online at Google Patents
^ “Cool under the collar: Arizona’s bola ties” by Lawrence W, Cheek, Sunset, April 2002
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bolo ties
Interview transcript dealing with the bolo tie.
Montana Leader Defends Bolo Ties
“Man in the Moon” bolo tie by Haida artist Donnie Edenshaw, 2003, in wood, argillite, abalone shell, shell, and leather, in “Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest”, American Museum of Natural History exhibit, 2004-2005
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