Eagle Feather Fan VLOG & (kind of) Tutorial
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- I make my first eagle feather fan and take you along with me, while providing basic instructions.
DISCLAIMER 1: I had no prior experience of fan construction, nor do I have friends or family that have experience with fan construction. I conducted hours of research to find information from several Native sources to learn every detail of fan construction. If you plan to follow my instructions, keep these facts in mind and note mistakes were made in this video. If anything in this video was done “wrong,” or if you have better solutions, ANY AND ALL ADVICE IS WELCOME IN THE COMMENT SECTION for myself and future viewers to learn from. Chi miigwech!!
DISCLAIMER FOR NON-NATIVES: My non-Native audience is welcome to watch this video for entertainment. However, the instructions in this video are meant solely for Indigenous peoples to recreate. Feather fans are deeply spiritual and hold significant meaning to Indigenous people who use them. Do not recreate a feather fan if you are non-Native, even if done so “respectfully”, and especially if done so for a costume.
In addition, please remember that it is illegal for non-Natives to own eagle feathers or parts: www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/eag...
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- Fan handles from Wandering Bull: wanderingbull.com/shop/craft-...
- Fan handles from Noc Bay: nocbay.com/prodDetails.asp?ID=...
- Fan handles from Sharp’s Indian Store: www.sharpsindianstore.com/sto...
- “Straightening Feathers” video by nocbaytrading: • Straightening Feathers
- “Making Regalia Episode 3 Season 2” video about making bustles by Cheyenne and Arapaho Television: • Making Regalia - Episo...
- Instructions on how to do threadwork: www.powwows.com/how-to-do-thr...
- Florette feathers from Crazy Crow Trading Post: www.crazycrow.com/exotic-feat...
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- Feathers (eagle, hawk, turkey, etc)
- Fan handle (links above), or wooden spoon, or homemade handle.
- 2 wooden dowels, size 3/16
- Scissors (regular shears, hair cutting shears, and pinking shears)
- Masking tape
- Hot iron and ironing surface or lightbulb that gets hot
- Heavy books or other large flat objects for weight
- Florette feathers (link above)
- Tacky glue
- Threads of preferred colors (cotton, etc)
- Wood filler (NOT GLUE)
- Small medicine dropper (for inserting filler into handle) and knife or other scraping object
- Leather
- Clear gorilla glue (NOT FOAMING)
- Small paint brush
- Rubber bands
- Friends or aunties for advice
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Just a pointer to help... Use a fly fishing spool threader..it looks like a wish bone.. that way you can really pull on your work and get very detailed... Just a suggestion... That's what I use.... Hope that helps
❤❤❤❤ Trial and error is apart of the learning process. I'm so happy you finished it and were able to share your beautiful fan. It looks amazing, great work! Happy dancing 💜💙💚💛🧡❤
Love the Disclaimer!!!.. need more of those for Native traditional artists!!.. NATIVE INDEPENDENCE!!!
THIS IS FANTASTIC, YOU DID SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB, I CAN SEE YOU'RE NOT A QUITTER, THANK YOU FOR THE TUTORIAL. EXCELLENT.
I'm so glad to have found your video! I have held onto my Eagle feathers (but not been able to use the number of them I have) for YEARS because I've been too scared to make a fan, and it's been difficult to find good instruction. But the time has come! I appreciate you sharing your mistake, as I was struggling with understanding feather placement with the curves. Thank you so much for your humor and sharing. I feel more confident to take on this project! Miigwetch!
your fan looks great, i love the thread work, i make my own fans for dancing, however i don't do thread-work or plume-work, i actually use plastic pony beads and from a distance they do look like thread-work, I'm planning on making a video on how i make my fans if your interested, but again you did a fabulous job, and your feathers are beautiful
Yes I’ve seen your fan! I love it. Let me know when your video comes out!
Its Gorgeous!! True Artisans really appreciate the heart & soul that goes into making their pieces.
Chelsey, your fan turned out beautiful!!! Even though you had a mistake which happens, we are humans and we learn from our mistakes but that didn't deter you from redoing it over. I'm proud of you, great job!!👍❤❤❤❤❤❤
That was so much fun to watch. I love it when people are perfectionists and fix their mistakes learning as they go. Thank you for sharing!! You made such a beautiful fan.
Even though I’m finding this video a year after it was posted, i really appreciate the time and patience you took to provide an informative video. I am planning on making my own fan sometime soon and you really helped answer a lot of my questions!
This turned out amazing, especially since this is your first time making one. You’re such a talented person.
I appreciate the work you're doing on here , Chi Miigwetch !!
Chelsey looks wonderful! Love your personality X
Just beautiful!! Sometimes we learn as we go. Trial and error. My grandfather passed when I was 10 and I never met any if his family. He chose to live as a french Canadian instead of sharing his beautiful Native American heritage and beliefs with his kids and grandkids. It saddens me but I believe he must have had his reasons.
I hope you had a wonderful time at your virtual powwow. Many blessings to you. 💗
Thank you, this helped me a lot. I have been searching how to make a prayer fan. I really appreciate the time, care, and research you put into this.
Thank you again!
My dad introduced me to your fan making skills and you are awesome!
Chelsey you just gave me a great idea with the spoon! thank you
Your fan came out really nice! Thanks for sharing!
Very nice!
Thank you for fixing the feathers ,i was yelling no no no lol (like you could hear me),when you 1st showed your idea the feathers were in the wrong order.glad josh explained it to you.
Very helpful
It turned out amazing ❤
good job! thanks for the sharing your mistake and learner from it.. things to think about... miigwitch!!!
Even though this might be your first time you did an awesome awesome job with the threading! Looks gorgeous
Ahe’ee Sister...
Very much appreciated indeed..
Walk in Beauty and Gratitude..
you did a wonderful job, your colors are beautiful I love the work that you did, I put my own Eagle fan together and danced with it at our pow-wow here, I hope that I get to watch another video from you in the future.
Life is for learning hun. Now you know, it looks good and is fabulous, now that you are happy with it, and only you will know about the long path you took.
Thank you so much! You are so personable and real. I am grateful you made this video teaching me how to do this.
Good job! What a lesson you learned here - as an ARTIST- these things will happen
Shout out to the Wandering Bull!! I only live a town away from them ❤ Totally where I got my fan handle as well. My heart dropped when you said you had to take it apart... Just know, it came out beautifully!!
They saved my butt at the last Mohegan Wigwam Festival lol...I had to get a replacement set of deer hair cones ASAP from them because of a "wardrobe malfunction." Love them
Yasssssss Kwuueeeen! Fan looks amazing!
Beautiful fan for first timer🙂
Turned out awesome,you should be proud of it being your first one.
Aw, I love your videos. It's so hard to find indigenous CZcamsrs!
Thank you - I like your fan and the video.
Just came across this. And this is the cutest and best video I’ve ever seen! One thing I learned to remind myself constantly is when it comes to powwow regalia work is don’t worry about how it looks up close because nobody at the pw is ever looking that close to your outfit, beadwork or feather work. Lol you did such a great job. Thanks for this video! I love it & learned so much!
Miigwech for sharing your talents and gifts with us.
I appreciate you. I learned my first ribbon skirt from your videos ♥️♥️♥️
That was a fabulous tutorial! Thanks ❤
I did my redtail hawk fan the same way--washi tape, clearcoat (the brush-on kind) to hold it in place, and E6000 adhesive to hold the feathers in place. I figured if it could hold on auto body parts, it'll hold up for powwow! I even use the stuff to rubberise my moc soles.
Did you cut the quills on the feathers for your fan? Iam trying to make one now but am nervous about cutting the quills
@@brandon7482 I cut the bottom part off, but not all of the quills.
Great Job! Keep up the GORGEOUS work! My brother makes fans & he wants me to help him & I've seen him do I'm interested in learning more cause hes very "secretive" of his worl, lol. thanks for the upload!💚🤟💜💝🦅🕊
I think it’s awesome your teaching us. bc there no one to teach me and this is how I learn
I'm Ojibway from Canada I make fan's you did a good job Miigwetch (thank you)
I’m Kiowa from Oklahoma. My son and I are going to send in our applications. They say it could take years to get the feathers depending on what you request. Since you make fans, do you have any recommendations on which eagle feathers to order to make two fans for ceremony. Thank you for any info.
@@maiden-eq4uv I call bird sanctuaries the road departments and zoo's to get my Eagle feather as I do not want one killed for their feathers also in Canada we do not need to ask the Government for permission
Are you on Instagram?, I think I follow you, if so your feather work on your fans are stunning
It Looks very nice.
I remind you that even Natives must have an authorization to own feathers. It all depends on the repository situated in Colorado.
Although you had flaws omg wish I could make one just like you!
E6000 automotive adhesive works well too, they started selling it in craft sections it's that good.
Thank you so much for this tutorial ❤❤❤
❤❤❤ Chelsey, thank you for allowing us to share in this sacred act of creating your eagle feather fan.
I love this little peek into your life as a young Indigenous woman, wife and mother.
Personally, I am flabbergasted that your little ones allowed you so much uninterrupted time!! As an artist and writer, my children were always needing our wanting something right at the most critical points. And, I loved to hear the sweet voices of your children in the background.
If you ever decide to help your little ones make their own fans, I would love to watch the video with my 5 year old grandson.
Also, I hope you will create a video of you dancing at your first PowWow. I am interested to know how the experience expands your spiritual relationship and enriches your life. How will it improve your role as a mother? I berks we all need to plant ourselves deeply in our roots of spiritual connection to the Divine Source.
I am very impressed with the beautiful craftsmanship and your commitment to creating the finest, most beautiful fan.
Will you create another one? Wouldn't that be a lovely, life-affirming present for someone special on the occasion of their own first PowWow?
I love your sense of humor. And I love that your husband is so supportive of you. You have such a beautiful energy and an inner light that makes this world a more hopeful place.
Blessings be upon you Dear One. ❤
I'm gonna do it! Thanks
Very helpful I been wanting to fix a HAWK fan
I loved your video
It looks good
Great video, thanks for the info. I have a Falcon feather fan to make but am still afraid to use my feathers as they are very important to me and do not want to make a mistake!!! Yakoke!
I think its beautiful
Just a friendly Comanche here 🤝 looks real kéén ura for the videos ive been watching from oklahoma
Nice fan indeed
Thanks for the videos don’t know how I would learn
Kutâputush for sharing. I was gifted with a bunch of Turkey feathers and wanted to make some fans and jewelry using my feathers.
Tanks
Awesome :)
Thank you so much, I’m a jingle dancer and I needed to make my own beautiful fan🤍I appreciate it! It’s so hard to find a fan or someone to teach me 🪶💕
Looks awesome...beautiful..sista..
Oh, goodness never mind the thread work there is a lot of that under fly fishing...
FEATHER WORK... Please, please, please make a tutorial for this.
To straighten your feathers use a lightbulb, lay it on a lightbulb 💡
freakin rad!
Thank you for your video. I'm making my regalia for the first time (coming home to my Modoc roots) and it's so helpful to have videos to show how to do it since my Native side of the family is basically ignoring their heritage... ☹️ Well not all thankfully because my great aunt made sure my whole life that I never forget my native ancestry and that always meant a lot to me so here I am, trying to recover my heritage.
I'm trying to learn how to make the feather plume hairpiece (women's regalia) and I'll be beading my headband soon also. I'd be super-thrilled to find a video on how to make those (though I've been beading for a few years now so it's more the structural how-to that I haven't figured out yet). Please let me know if you have a video for that. Thanks!
Also thanks to your helpful video I've started my first feather fan! I'm trying to figure out how to make it look like what the west coast tribes are doing since it's a bit different from the plains or East Coast nations.
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Hi 👋 new viewer from Philippines 🇵🇭 . An eagle feather should never be left contaminated with dust. The eagle feather should also never dropped the ground since that's disrespectful in native American culture. I like the end result of your eagle feather fan.
thank you for sharing this i was just going to buy a fan but making it myself will make it more personalized. can you show how to make plume feathers?
I once bought a fan and my aunt got so mad at me saying” we do not buy our fans, fans are gifts/earned though ceremony”, we can also traditionally trade for feathers as well, when I got the fan it was taken away and I was told to earn it, I hope you receive the feathers from creator instead of buying them as a lot of people frown upon it, it was a huge wake up call for me as I try to walk the traditional/modern way
I understand everyone's preference for e6000 but I feel like it's easier to work with aileen's tacky glue. My oldest fan is about 8 years and it has not come apart yet but I don't dance, just ceremony use.
Where did you get the colorful feathers?
Also, I read that nail polish works well as a gloss to the thread work. Thank you for this vid!
Hello Thank yoy for your knowledge and sharing. How big are the dowels in circumference?
Nice, where do you get your Eagle feathers and handle??
How do you start change and stop different color threads
Still waiting for those feather work/thread work videos girl ;)
Please do a thread work tutorial! 💞
Can you do the video of the florette work please ❤ really appreciate your videos!
This is a question just about fixing a broken feather in the middle who's shaft is covered in suede and bound with thread. Do you have a go to method?
Hello, beautiful work can i ask a question, what thread are you using for the threading?
i'm Potawatomi Native American
i use a hair straightener to make the feathers straight.
u can buy kits of crazy crow website.
Please help with a tutorial for feather floret work????
Did you do anything such as fasting or/and smudging after you received the feathers from the repository? If so, how long did you fast for, was it a berry only diet, did you have a ceremony?
I made with real
golden eagle feathers it looks really valuable
Exquisite ♡
can i just bead in a replacement of thread work? i have no idea how to do that kind of work
Left wing and right wing👍
Wish I had one but can never find enough to make one
so recently i bought an imitation eagle feather, is it okay if i were to use it on my head?
Where do you source the feathers? (Beautiful work!)
I’m indigenous to the US. I was born in NY.
I wonder if washi tape would work as well as masking tape for wrapping 🤔
You probably already said this.. but where did you get your feathers ??
Okay then.
Where are those tattoo designs from?
BTW When I came up with the design of the "WING" fan handle and it's name I only called a wing because of it's curved shape. I didn't intend for any particular kind of feather to be used
Contact rubber glue instead of the gorilla glue
You don't wrap the fan stick in buckskin until after all the work is done. How ever some do make use of a paper cone to mount the florals
She’s a 30 year old Indigenous woman who can do whatever she wants without your prodding and poking when you don’t found qualified to teach toddlers arts and crafts.
@@prettycringeyyou have the right name cringey. You should add illlerate to it aswell. I'm very qualified to teach as I've been making these fans for 30 years and am a 50 year old indigenous man myself. Why don't you shut up and kind your business. I was talking to her not you. I wasn't criticizing, I was offering professional advice.
Is there a certain type of paper to use? The floral work on my fan was damaged when we got rained on :( I'm trying to learn floral work done on paper
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Thank you for the video. I think you could have left out a few of your editorials but then that wouldn't make it your video. Your fan is beautiful it is yours you made it with your hands and your ideas. It is yours.
I would have suggested you use hot glue instead of the wood filler. Also the glue to put on the black leather, my recommendation is to use 3m spray glue or a contact cement. I would prefer the contact cement but the 3m is pretty much the same in a spray.
I would have also, since you are good with a needle, stiched the black parts together. But then you always have next time and from what I can see you may have an opportunity to make more for others. You're color schemes are natural and your sense of symmetry is very good. I'm am more of a raw natural. The feather fans I've seen in museums are pretty raw. The feathers I find along the road are from birds I'm not sure of what species I just pick up what I can find that are of interest. I try to straighten them put the like ones together and try to keep it as symmetrical as possible but also with a very raw native look rather than a commercial look.
In my opinion, and this is only my opinion as I am not a "registered Native American" I am only one who appreciates the culture, the commercial beauty that has bestowed many off the Native culture is part of the indoctrinated white culture. I'm not saying that is bad but it looks like something in a GAP or American Eagle commercial.
Me I been told never buy those items especially for ceremony purposes gifted or made for you