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Originally Posted by bqueton
I think we all know where the best gourd dances are. As for the weirdest I have saw was just once gourd dancer a few weeks ago down in Texas. He had on a huge red turban with some kind of huge feather hanging out of it. I thought it was the Taliban Gourd Society.
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Bque:
I think if most tribes danced in the historically accurate regalia of their tribe, a lot of eyebrows would be raised.
The Five Civilized tribes wore the turban you are describing. Many of the man dance/straight dancing tribes (ie. Pawnee, Kanza, Iowa, Otoe-Missouria) also traditionally wore finger woven turbans.
Today, when one of them is brave enough to wear their historically accurate clothing during a powwow, someone is bound to say, "DAAAAAAAAAANG, Check it out!"
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Along the same lines . . .
Even in Oklahoma, there are some strange "individual interpretations" of gourd dancing. Styles that make you go, "hmmmmmm?"