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post reply to otter drop
the original way of making an otter drop is to find a whole otter the length from the back of your neck to your back of your ankles. the Otter head should be the top, and the tip of the tail should reach the ankles. the otter drop is suppose to be one whole otter, not cut in two pieces. The head and strip down the back of the otter to the tail the whole tail should be cut wide only thing should be not on the drop is the legs and the under side of the otter, which can be used on your otter turban, or if you wanna stick with straight dance tradition cut the under side into strips to hang of the arm-bands instead of ribbons. along time ago the poncas used the otter for the back drop, turban, streamers for the armband, and leg garters, and a harness. thats the old original ponca straight dancers regalia. For your Otter drop you can sew it to a red broad cloth or some material of your choice, that matches your regalia
Old man Henrey Collins showed me how to make a straight dancers regalia, and told me the original way of staight dancers regalia
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