Watercolor Painting of Jingle Dancers by Ayasha Loya

Jingle Dancers 1 copyright Angela Pari Dominic Chumroo... more

by Ayasha Loya

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$5,000

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24.000 x 18.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

Watercolor Painting of Jingle Dancers by Ayasha Loya

Artist

Ayasha Loya

Medium

Painting - Watercolor On Water Color Paper

Description

Jingle Dancers 1 copyright Angela Pari Dominic Chumroo
Jingle dress is a Native American women's pow wow dance.The regalia worn for this dance is the jingle dress, which includes ornamentation with multiple rows of metal cones which create a jingling sound as the dancer moves. Origin of the jingle dress is attributed to three different Ojibwa communities: the Mille Lacs, Red Lake Band of Chippewa and the Whitefish Bay Ojibwe. In both the Mille Lacs and Whitefish Bay versions, the dress and the dance appeared in a recurring vivid dream that was realized about the year 1900. In both versions, the dream came to a Midewinini. In both dreams, there were four women, each wearing a jingle dress and dancing. Each dream also gave instructions on how to make the dresses, what types of songs went with them and how the dance was to be performed. In the Mille Lacs' version, the Midewinini upon awakening, with his wife made four dresses. He showed his wife how to dance in the dress, which he showed to the four women he had dreamed about, by calling the four women who in his dream wore them, dressed them in the dresses, brought them forth at a dance, told the people about the dream, and how the way the Midewikweg were to dress and dance.Due to the strong family connections between the Removable and Non-Removable Mille Lacs Indians of the Mille Lacs and White Earth Indian Reservations, the Mille Lacs Indians' version spread to White Earth and to other Ojibwe Reservations. In the late 1920s, the White Earth people gave the jingle dress to the Lakota and it spread westward into the Dakotas and Montana.

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July 4th, 2014