The Jingle Dress Project
Eugene Tapahe's healing dance-photography project came to him in a dream
Today’s header gif comes by way of the Jingle Dress Project. Native American fine arts photographer Eugene Tapahe explains the project’s objectives on his website:
Our goal is to take the healing power of the Ojibwe jingle dress to the land, to travel, to dance and capture a series of images to document the spiritual places our ancestors once walked, and to unite and give hope to the world through art, dance and culture to help us heal.
The idea came to Tapahe in a dream, a harkening back to the legend of an Ojibwe man who dreamed of the healing power of sound and dance—a power he then used to combat the Spanish Flu and heal his daughter. Tapahe, his daughters and two other volunteers travel to US National Parks and Monuments as a way to reclaim indigenous spaces and to spead the power of healing to the world.
The embedded video has an interview with Tapahe and his dancers.
More photographs by Tapahe, including those of the Jingle Dress Project are found in the link below.
Thank you, Martini. That was beautiful and inspiring.