curious1980

I have bought a bunch of dream catchers online and 1 looks alot different than the others or any I have seen before. It has a star in the center and all points on the star touch the circle. At each point is a small feather. There are 6 beads in the center of the star. Than it has 3 feathers hanging. 1 matches all pictures I could find of a hawk feather, 1 is black or dark brown with white or light gray spots and the other feather is brown and black. They are not painted feathers. Are some dream catchers made with different meanings or significance? I was told that depending on decoration and what is used to make it that it could have some other kind of spiritual meaning. Thanks to all who can help me with info.

*Brown Eyed Gurl*

i saw them at the dollar store the other day..i dint know there were ndns in china....i duno any answers im just a post whore

Margy

LOL Begs

Curious, I can't give you an answer either, just a link. There are discriptions and pictures. Can't tell whether it's good info or not. Hm....

Native American Dreamcatchers

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Josiah

After reading the link, seems plausable i know i did not start seeing them till the 70's so what was described in the article sounds about right

From reading this and what i have seen around I think the maker of the Dream catcher puts there on spin on what it means to them
But I dont think you can find a book that would classify them in any order so that this kind means this and this kind over here means that... And if you read the first part of the article they said the original tribe making them made them rather small and somewhat plain with just senew and a feather hanging off them...

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Margy

Thank you Josiah, it sounded good to me, but I didn't know for sure whether it was o.k., so....thank you for your opinion. And whenever I post something and you think I'm wrong, please everybody feel free to correct me. I will not post much about those things anyway.... Thank you!!!!

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NorthofAda

My 8-year-old wanted a dreamcatcher for Christmas after reading a book about them as they were used in the old Anishnabe traditions. My sister sent her one that was made by a Dine lady in Arizona, whose name and roll number were on the tag attached to the dreamcatcher.

It is just like the description in your link, Margy - between 3 to 4 inches in diameter, wrapped with leather around the frame, a single bead strung through the webbing in one part and then a few strips of leather hanging from the bottom with a few pony beads and tiny feathers attached. She has it hanging over her bed, and she continues to tell me that she hasn't had a nightmare since she hung it up!

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