Dancing Echoes is a medium sized purse that features the jingles you find on a woman's jingle dress. The jingle dress dance originated with the Ojibwe and spread to other tribes, including the Lakota. The jingle dress dance was created as a form of prayer and healing. The dress is decorated with rows of metal cones that produce a melodic jingling sound when danced in.
Despite bans on ritual dancing amoung reservations, the jingle dress dance persisted and spread across tribes, today you will see the dance at powwows and it is a powerful symbol of resilience, healing, and cultural pride.
This purse is spacious enough to hold all your essentials and more, this purse is perfect for both everyday use and special occasions. Its bold design and elegant details make it a statement accessory.
This purse set comes with matching jingle earrings that are decorated with butterflies. Butterfly in Lakota is "kimímila" (pronounced kee-mee-mee-lah) and are seen as symbols of beauty, transformation and the connections between the physical and spiritual worlds. They are believed to carry prayers or messages between our world and the spiritual world.
Dancing Kimímila Echoes
Length: 11 inches Width: 9 inches