NOC BAY LEARNING CIRCLE

One of our goals here at Noc Bay Trading Company is to encourage people to make their own items of dance clothing, particularly young people, so they may personally experience the culture. The LEARNING CIRCLE is an evolution of over 20 years of practical instructional materials we have produced for construction of dance clothing items with today’s materials.

Now we are offering our LEARNING CIRCLE instruction sheets here on the Web. You are authorized to download the file which you will be able to read in Acrobat Reader for your personal use. Click on the title below to download the pdf file. Teachers and youth groups are also authorized to print out for use in the classroom or youth project. Caution though. The sheets are copyrighted so permission is required from the author for any commercial use or reprinting in publications or elsewhere on the Web.





1. Cutting and Stringing Buckskin Thong 147.9 KB
2. Jingle Dress Cones 57.7 KB
3. Women’s Breastplate, Large 372.5 KB
3b. Women's Breastplate, Bone 372.7 KB
4. Women’s Breastplate, Medium 449.6 KB
5. Women’s Breastplate, Child 270.7 KB
6. Girl's Hairtie 206.1 KB
8. Partridge Tail Fan 243.2 KB
9. Flat Fan 286.1 KB
10. Women’s Shawl 290.4 KB
11. Two Piece Leather Dress 322.6 KB
12. Hints to Buying Buckskin Hides 450.3 KB
13. Porky Quill Earrings 207.1 KB
14. Children’s Pendant Necklace 202.5 KB
15. Double Strand Necklace 225.7 KB
16. Four Strand Choker Necklaces 301.5 KB
16b. Bone Chocker Necklaces 267.9 KB
17. Men’s Breastplate 365.8 KB
17b. Men's Bone Breastplate 383.7 KB
18. Trimming and Shaping Turkey Pointers 299.7 KB
19. Award Feather 300.7 KB
20. Men’s Aprons 423.8 KB
21. Sleigh Bell Sets 233.1 KB
22. Sheep Bell Sets 262.9 KB
23. Rocker Roach Spreader 230.7 KB
24. Bead and Hairpipe Bandoliers 345.7 KB
25. Traditional Otter Bandolier 159.6 KB
26. Fur Turban, Otter Style 317.6 KB
26b. Fur Fabric Turban 116.8 KB
29. Leather Roach Spreader 256.8 KB
30. Northern and Southern Style Drumsticks 305.6 KB
31. Key Ring Project 527.9 KB
33. Making Twisted Fringe 239.7 KB
34. Girl’s Shawl Dancer Dress 174.2 KB
35. Wrap Designs 237.4 KB
36. Fancy Dancer Arm Bustles 267.3 KB
37. Dream Catcher earrings 296 KB
38. Dream Catchers 252 KB
39. Leather Pouches 256.2 KB
40. Wrapped Medicine Wheels 304.6 KB
41. Mandella 310.8 KB
42. Prayer Wheel 307.9 KB
43. Goose Feather Wing Fan 278.5 KB
44. Acrylic and Bead Bracelet 300.1 KB
44b. Bone and Bead Bracelet 274.3 KB
45. Earrings Design Paper 327.2 KB
46. Womans Hair Plume 188.8 KB
47. Grass Dancer Spreader 211.8 KB
48. Personal Pipe 309.1 KB
49. Claw Pendant Necklace 146.5 KB
50. Quill Medicine Wheels 293.1 KB
51. Girls Braid Wraps 238.3 KB
52. Necklace Pouch 305.1 KB
53. Wrapped Wheel Earrings 263.2 KB
54. Turtle Rattle 257.3 KB
55. Hand Drum 14" 571 KB
55b. Hand Drum 12" 529 KB
56. Powwow Drum Kit 93.5 KB
57. Hand Drum Stick 218.6 KB
58. Powwow Drum Frames 224.4 KB
59. Concho Belt 173.6 KB
60. Small Pouch 221 KB
61. Laced Bell Set 112.3 KB
62. Round Roach 99.2 KB
63. Crown Roach 375 KB
64. Traditional Mens Anklets 177.7 KB
64b. Traditional Men's Fabric Shag Anklets 220.6 KB
65. Extending Feather Quills 196.4 KB
66. Attaching Wood Dowels to Traditional Bustles 360.6 KB
67. Three Strand Necklace 316.2 KB
69. Medallion Necklace 247.7 KB
71. Fancy Dance Whip Sticks 823.8 KB
72. Goose Wing Fan - Childs 281.1 KB
73. Straighting Feathers 616.8 KB
74. Liquid Silver Pendant Necklace 454.5 KB
75. Chicken Dance Arm Bustle 655.4 KB
76. Chicken Dance Bustle 777.7 KB
77. Wrapped Hand Drum Stick 286.5 KB
78. Attaching Cones 535.8 KB
79. Wrapping Wing Fan Handles 380.3 KB
80. Mounting Deer Toes 317.5 KB
81. Fluff Hair Clip 199.4 KB
82. Sewing Fringe 231.9 KB
83. Bone Pendant Necklace 234.0 KB
85. Roach Stick 361.6 KB
86. Flute Kit 481.3 KB
87. Feather Visor 340.0 KB
88. Using Real Sinew 308.1 KB
89. Selecting the Right Needle 241.5 KB
90. Tips for Using Imitation Porky Guard Hair 250.9 KB