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White waist wraps
I have been looking at photos of gourd dancers from the early 1900's.
In these photos, none were wearing the familiar red and blue blankets that are the trademark of gourd dancers today. Also, missing were the cowboy boots and ball caps (just had to throw that one in . . . *LOL)!
In these photos there were no sash waist wrap-arounds (beaded and fringed) like you see every gourd dancer wearing today. Instead the dancers wore the familiar black shawl and a "WHITE WAIST WRAP" that overlaps and hangs off the side of the dancers. I have heard these types of wrap arounds were made of bed sheets.
Many gourd dance leaders and elders still wear these white wrap arounds when they gourd dance (among the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne-Arapaho).
Any comment?
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