Women's Jingle Dress
Women's Jingle Dress (Healing Dance)was one of the most recent dances that has been introduced to the pow wow arena.
The story that was told to me by my godfather was that this type of dance style was created through a dream, and goes like this. A long time ago there was an old elderly women who was very ill and that night she told here granddaughter that her time would be coming soon. When the elderly women went to sleep she dreamed of her granddaughter dancing for her in a dress which she had never seen before. So the next day she began to make this dress, putting 365 cones or jingles on the black dress. When her granddaughter danced for her in this dress she became well again.
This style of dancing has become one of the most well known in the pow-wow arena over the past years. This dance style along with the Men's Grass dance are the most recent dances introduced to the pow-wow arena.
The Jingle Dress consists of 365 jingle/cones to represent each day in a year. There are usually 5 of 7 rows of jingles. This represents the days in a week.
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