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Dress from Dances With Wolves
Mesophilic:
N-flix finally has Dances With Wolves. I haven't seen that movie in a really long time. In fact , last time I watched it, was a VHS copy on a 32" tube TV.
So no wonder I didn't really notice it till now, that the dress that Stands With A Fist wears is decorated with a bunch of elk ivories. I just thought they were some kind of seashell.
I really appreciate the props and costumes a lot more now that I've dabbled with primitive arts.
Mesophilic:
Pat B:
I haven't seen that movie in a long time also. Need to see it again and pay more attention to the details.
I saw a dress in the Museum Of The Native Americans in Washington a few years back. It had so many elk ivories on it I bet it weight 50#+. It looked way cool but I bet it was an uncomfortable dress to wear.
Eric Krewson:
There was a shop in Gatlinburg owned by the late Polly Bergen that had a lot of the dances with wolves props and costumes in it, lots of bows and arrows.
One dress from the movie had hundreds of tiny bells on it made supposedly from tobacco can pieces.
I remember the war shirt on the right was in the shop, I don't remember what it was priced at but I believe is was several thousand dollars, a lot of money 25 or so years ago.
rebsr52339:
I had the privilege of working with Spotted Horse reproductions, (John Arrasmith), one of the production companies supplying a lot of "stuff" for the movie. John called me up and asked me if I would make a few iron arrowheads for him. He said he had a contract to supply "stuff" for a new movie going into production. At the time we did not even know the name of it. I said sure, how many do you want. He said how about 3000+ of them. You can guess there was a pregnant pause for a while. I said “your kidding.” Well the short of this is I worked for GE at the time. My friend worked in a small machine shop in Bristol Ct. He agreed to make a punch and die and the owner donated a coil of iron and one night I punched out about 3000 of them. I also punched out 5 Sterling silver heads and John made the arrows and gave one each to Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Green, and Wes Studi. He sent the last one back to me and I still have it. You can see some of the heads in the photo. If anyone wants one just Email me your address and I will send you one. The arrow you see Kevin pull out of the body on the plains has a head "well" corroded. That is my story and I'm sticking to it.
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