Old style jingle dress on Ebay

[MayChe]

check it out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2163251218&category=716

[billyjoejimbob]

she sure looks like a maiden.....and Iron Maiden!!!

[Riverwoman]

That is sad, I have seen that one as well. It almost makes me want to cry:Cry What the hell are those "wasichu" people doing with a sacred dress? and $3500, good lord :Yell

[Suzizila]

That dress should be in a tribal museum where the dress and dance originated from. It shouldn't be placed online where it could be bought by someone who doesn't understand its significance and would misuse it. If anything at all, it should be somewhere that the dress could be properly cared for and used to educate people, preferably in a tribal museum. Seeing this dress on Ebay is about as bad as seeing a pipe put up for auction.
That is really sad.:(

[webscouter]

So do you think buying this as a Powwows.com community and donating it to a tribal museum would be worth our effort?

[Riverwoman]

Originally posted by webscouter
So do you think buying this as a Powwows.com community and donating it to a tribal museum would be worth our effort?

Yes, I do! But where could we or anyone come up with that kind of dough?:( Ummm that would be better, have it in a tribal museum:)

[webscouter]

Well, I don't know how many are active but there are 6000+ members of this site. Just a thought.

[webscouter]

I'll start by pledging $25.00 and will keep a listof others who pledge.

[luvlumbee]

:dropping: :Chatter yeah!

[jingle genie]

Take into consideration too that someone (non-n8tive) could have made the dress... in that case, it don't mean a thing.... and i think straightdancerinaz is right... people buy jingle dresses all the time... and no one ever raises a stink about it so, what's the deal with doing in now... besides, they're never going to sell it for that much...no way, no how...

[*Kwe_Zee*]

Yeh all ya's have good points, but looks like whoever did the beadwork, really studied Ojibwe floral... looks "authentic". Either that, or they traveled into the future and ripped off my new dress. lol..... jk... but yeh ya never know what really happened with the dress, I know my great grandparent's house was looted in the early 1950s, something like that, alot of their stuff was taken, alot of stuff that could be on eBay.. "authentic Ojibwe antiques". lol... it's kinda sad tho' when I hear my mom talk about it cuz she remembers all the stuff that is gone.

[native_flutterby]

I bet in all your ranting and raving you didnt even notice that the dress was being worn backwards...lmao looks nice, and aint no 365 jingles on that sucker, lmao new agers and there 365 jingles for every day...

[Roobz]

LOL on the 365 thang!