~Jingle Pejuta~

I thought I would start this so some of the great info here would be in one place.

The first one here is often asked about the dress construction. It has to do with the puffy (pouffy) sleeves.

Here are some good links about those.

http://powwows.com/gathering/showthread.php?t=27575&highlight=puffy+sleeves

http://powwows.com/gathering/showthread.php?t=14435&highlight=puffy+sleeves

http://powwows.com/gathering/showthread.php?t=36075&highlight=puffy+sleeves

http://powwows.com/gathering/showthread.php?t=14640&highlight=puffy+sleeves

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jingledancer92

hi i'm a new jingle dress dancer and i'm working on my regalia. I have been doing a lot of research about the construction of the dress. I have found a lot of different information about the number of rows and the number of jingles. One-in-five sites will say that I should have 7 rows and 365 - 366 jingles. The other 4 will say it is up to me. How important is the number of jingles and the number of rows??? Is the 7/365 a "traditional" style that has changed because of Pow-wow's?

Thanks for any help and advice that you can offer.

WhoMe

Websites on subjects such as the jingle dress can often be "opinion sites."

If you want real answers. . .

Take the time to travel to jingle dress country. Watch and observe. Then take some tobacco to a Anishinaabe kwe elder and get to know them.

If the time seems right, ask your questions.

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ojibwaysweetie

Very goot answer

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ojibwaywmn

To be honest, I don't know where the 7/365 came from. When you see pictures of Ojibway women wearing jingle dresses back in the 30s, 40s, etc., you don't see them with 7 rows and 365 jingles. Their dresses had much smaller and thinner cones and they had about 3 or 4 rows.

I use the amount of jingles that are needed for the design.

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ojibwaysweetie

Exactly.

I dunno where lots of these stories come from either. I heard a few say that they put one cone on their dress a day for a year. And some other "myths". Made 2 dresses this past weekend. I thought if that is the way its "supposed to be", I wouldn't be dancing for 2 years. lol. And I can't wait that long cuz, I ain't gettin any younger. ayyye

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pow-wow person

I liked the answer you gave about the number of jingles on a dress, this past denver march powwow article in the paper said something about 365 cones and I never heard that till this past few months. A good friend of mine back in the day was slender and probably could have handled that many jingles but she never told me a story like that. And she was the only jingle dancer at the powwows in Los Angeles at that time, and she was a goot one too!

ojibwaysweetie

oh well...

Just keep on truckin' making beautiful dresses. If I could make one a week I would but my full time job don't allow it lol

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chirapachegurl

wow 2 dresses in one weekend!!!??? one day i'll get there, it takes me half a day just to draw and cut out a pattern. havin my back injured while deployed doesn't help the sitiation any, i'm on my way ta recovery tho then that machine better watch out for me, i'll be oilin it every weekend, ayee

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ojibwaysweetie

I have two daughters who help with the design, cutting and heat and bonding and threading cones, etc. My oldest daughter used to help but she has since moved away and has her own family. We have our little assembly line going. But when they were little, I used to do ours by myself. Don't even ask how I did it, cuz it's a blur today. :|

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RiouxbySioux

A friend of mine picked up an Jingle Dress out of a pawn shop in Mobridge South Dakota, i have a pic of it posted. But anyways, she gave it to me, and i have no clue what to do with it except maybe mend it a bit or maybe just make a new one out of it. Any feedback would be great and patience with me is a must, i am just learning about my culture. Would it be alright to disassemble it and make a new one out of it? The cones are pretty worn and of many different sizes. The dress is too small for me and i dont know what size it is, but i would guess it to be a large,ha ha ha it would fit me if i lose a few frybread pounds! But if nothing else i will mend it and re-sell it for 50 bucks. I am not a Jingle Dress dancer, my knees are to worn out to ever consider trying to learn, i would love to learn traditional though, not much movement going on there and thats more my style. lol. Thanks for reading. Have a wonderful day.... you know why? Cause thats all that matters is today...
Ruby




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SORRY I HAVE RESIZED THESE PHOTOS 3 TIMES AND THEY ARE STILL HUGE!!

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Riouxbie

You can take it apart and reconstruct a new one. I do that sometimes with my older dresses. Or, I add on designs here and there. :)

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