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Thread #15833   Message #144084
Posted By: katlaughing
03-Dec-99 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: Help: Indian business for school play
Subject: RE: Help: Indian business for school play
Cute, Spaw and so true!

Penny, some of the sacred objects which might be appropriate would be a feather fan, usually just 3-4 feathers with a sort of case around the base, like leather, with beadwork or some beads hanging down from it; rattles made of skin or clay (I have a wonderful one shaped like an egg with runes all over it); a staff with feathers and beads; medicine pouch (small) with personal items inside, i.e. stones, corn pollen, fetishes; how about a drum, small handheld. I've a wonderful one of those, too. Or a NA flute? At the powwos we go to, the dances usually involved shawls with long, long fringes, which are used, by the women, to accent their dancing, sometimes spread like eagles' wings along their outstretched arms.

Can you tell us why you have Indians, in the scheme of things? I am sure some did sing carols and such, it just seems it was done under such horrible conditions of oppression. Not meaning to give offense, just intertested.

Thanks,

Kat