"…imitations of European objects are found on the islands of the Pacific Oceans.

Thus the Fiji Islanders gave to their clubs the forms of European guns, and the chiefs of New Britain adopted as headdress the hat form of British Admirals.

There are some cases of double imitation. The steel harpoon used by American and Scotch whalers is a slightly modified imitation of the Eskimo harpoon. These were again imitated by the Eskimo."

(Boas)

"When they [the indians] for the first time were allowed to go onboard the western warship Maracanha, which visited Paraguay in 1857, the following day the sailors observed that they had adorned themselves all over their bodies with pictures of anchors. One indian had even painted on him an officer's uniform on his upper body, with buttons, galloons, sword-belt and hanging skirts."

(Lévi-Strauss - my own translation from the Swedish language)