Your Fan

[ojibwaysweetie]

For those of you Jinglers that use a fan, what kind of fan do you use? Black tip? Spotted eagle? Golden? Makaw? Describe the fan you use when dancing your contest song.

[dancinfancy]

My 10 year old daugther jingles and right now she has a red shoulder hawk tail, but I am working on get her either a salt & pepper or black and white, haven't had much luck yet though.

[ojibwaywmn]

I was using a spotted eagle fan while dancing Contemporary. Now that I have switched over to Old Style, I no longer use a fan.

[tiYaAni]

blackktips :]

[ndngirl70]

I dance old style and do not use a fan

[ojibwaywmn]

blackktips :]

Nice!

[native_flutterby]

heh heh she said for those of you who use a fan :P lol anyhow i use my bald eagle tail or my eagle wing when i feel like it, meaning if their are prayers or people that have asked me to dance for them. its considered a spotted tail i guess, it was from a rather large young bald female. its got featherwork on it and a handle that twists off. My fam on my dads side had it done for me. its pretty its semi loose, when i dance the feathers dance with me on the side step i love the way it feels when they dance with me. yeah thats about it i have pix of it on my myspace ;) lol

[ojibwaysweetie]

I don't use a fan when I dance. My Mama gave me eagle feathers number of years ago and had a fan made. They are old feathers and instead of them just lying in my case I asked for a fan to be made. I will use it when I have that feeling to use it like to pray directly for her.

[miss_mohawk]

I had a little mini fan when I was little. I think they were turkey feathers but I'm not too shure. I remember back then that round here even old style jinglers used to carry a fan...times have changed eh?

[native_flutterby]

haa haa haa! i just thought of something! my grampa murph rigged up a ruffed grouse fan for me when i was a tiny tot! i still have it and was thinking of dancin with that lol just for the sake of memories...i loved my papa and i love my fam they are the ones who gave me my eagle fans...the wing and the tail. there are responsibilities that go with them too but i wont get into that lol but yeah a ruffed grouse tail fan is a cute beginers fan :D

[Tibiki Kinew]

haa haa haa! i just thought of something! my grampa murph rigged up a ruffed grouse fan for me when i was a tiny tot! i still have it and was thinking of dancin with that lol just for the sake of memories...i loved my papa and i love my fam they are the ones who gave me my eagle fans...the wing and the tail. there are responsibilities that go with them too but i wont get into that lol but yeah a ruffed grouse tail fan is a cute beginers fan :D

Brings back memeories for me, I made a whole stack of them. In fact when I go to a powwow it still is good to see one of mine in the hands of others. Now I make more ceremonial ones that talk when you look at them, they are not repeats and all are so unique that the owner knows he or she has a one of a kind fan.
Last year I started a new series of fans, using the leg of a wolf as a handle and removing the bones and treating the skin and then filling the leg to become firm as a handle, I do leave the claws and pads on the foot too!

[ojibwaysweetie]

haa haa haa! i just thought of something! my grampa murph rigged up a ruffed grouse fan for me when i was a tiny tot! i still have it and was thinking of dancin with that lol just for the sake of memories...i loved my papa and i love my fam they are the ones who gave me my eagle fans...the wing and the tail. there are responsibilities that go with them too but i wont get into that lol but yeah a ruffed grouse tail fan is a cute beginers fan :D

Those are good starter fans and they are cute. LOL. And it is cool that you still have it.

[NCheyGirl21]

Mine's black tips

[JinglinBooty]

I was given my fan by my brother-in-law - white feathers.

[Flying_Raven]

mine it the first one i've made, the main feathers are 4 Large turkey tail feathers, then i have a row of 4 shorter ones that used alternateing between owl and macaw(2 of each), then the base is 5raven feathers, these feathers were gifted to me by a friends of the family. i use the fan for prayer as well.