[HiTech RedNeck]

I’ve sometimes mused about this. How would palefaces, in that day (there weren’t even very good mirrors yet), manage to disguise themselves effectively as Indians rather than appearing as obviously in costume? Maybe they wanted to project the image of being “wild as Indians” instead of actually effecting a disguise — i.e. something as obvious as blackface would be?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Rumor has it that the raid on the ship was pulled-off by the Masons, who were mostly the influential men of the city.

[Kirkwood]

The Symbolism of the “Indian Dress” Reports from the time describe the participants as dressed as Mohawks or Narragansett Indians. The disguise was more symbolic in nature; they knew they would be recognized as non-Indians. The act of wearing “Indian Dress” was to express through symbolism to the world that the American colonists identified themselves as “Americans” and no longer considered themselves British subjects. They were not dressed as Indians in the classic sense with headdresses and full authentic regalia; rather they wore wool blankets matchcoat style, painted their faces with soot, and employed other modes of dress commonly known at the time as “Indian dress” which had been adopted by soldiers during the French and Indian War. - See more at: http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-secret-plan#sthash.32IXecte.dpuf

[warsaw44]

The author is an idiot.

The American Indian was the symbol of America. Now one would envision Uncle Same as the symbol of the United States but back then it was the American Indian.

The Sons of Liberty knew exactly what they were doing and wanted the British to know it was them. Everyone in the damned city of Boston knew who did this.