in the morning amelia came over and she and morgana worked on their physics lab exercises. i'm not sure what chanda is working on here!
when it was time for them to leave, they came across jack in the hallway, patiently waiting for someone to walk him!
after amelia and joanna left, chanda, morgana and i decided to visit nyc's national museum of the american indian. i actually wanted to check if the gift shop had ghost bead necklaces that chanda could use as a gift for her nutcracker dance partner.
there was a current exhibit about native american dancing. they had approximately ten short films about different dances, along with the corresponding costume. the costume above is for a girl's fancy shawl dance. the dress that they wear is called a wingdress and is a cloth version of the deerhide dress that used to be worn. the dance is performed in a pow wow circle and is similar to the butterfly dance, which uses the same type of dress and shawl. the yakama nation is found in the state of washington and their young boys and girls are taught early to dance to the drumbeat. in their dancing they are taught to honor their elders, families, people and themselves.
this is the butterfly dress of a young hopi girl.
there was a woman teaching how to make cornhusk dolls. she had the cornhusks soaking and we folded and tied them into dolls.
there are many different ways of tying the husks to create young girls or boys or lacrosse players!
it was fun and i think the dolls came out very well.
No comments:
Post a Comment