Abstract
A review of accumulation of notes and comments on this Quarto passage reveals a curious lack of authority for ideas which are repeated about Indians and their ignorance of pearls and/or gold. pages of Variorum show that matter stood unresolved in nineteenth century. Twentiethcentury editions of play have nothing more specific on Base Indian. For instance, New Penguin note for Othello, V. ii. 347, assures reader that There are many stories of Indians throwing away precious stones, but it does not name one.' New Clarendon Othello likewise has it that the American Indian was almost proverbial even at this date for his ignorance of precious metals and objects prized in Europe.2 But only authority for remark is Drayton's Legend of Mathilda (I594), The wretched Indian spurns golden ore, Another recent edition has this:
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