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"Headdress Business Tickles World", Spring 1990, p. 1

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visit to Japan at the end or May. With a $9.500 srant from the reserve•s new Touch the Sky Business Centre. her part..tlme business. Jua- gled between raising a fam- ily and orldDI a medi- cal drift!' ror Health and elfare Csnlda. expand- in,to a ftlll-tlme operation that will employ three or her daughters. · Sllftaugbt Mrs. Braclle, plans to build a abop at her home for addl- Uonal workspace and to at.ore the necessary materlala In- cluding: feathers. felt caps. buckskin laces. ermine and rabbit skim and beadwork. She-,. lhe a1ao will uae the mone, tor advertising. Her prime cuatomers will likely be muaeuma and craft shops In Ontario. She says lhe la the only one In the area tbat mabl such elaborate headdreuea. The price ls m> for a »feather headdress, but a custom-made piece with special beadwork and animal skins will co.st more than $:500. ~ are cheaper ones out tbele but they are made cheaper. I haven't seen a headdress yet that is ftnlahed lllreours." She taupt benelttbe art of headdress-mating after watching a man from the North American Indian Club in Rochester. N.Y. 041 was really lnttt,ued with them; 1 just loved them." she says. "Ifs IU a sreat feelina to start with ~--11111111..-..iu- tuaUy come tblnctbat •• ., ·.u 1n -' ... ., • .J~,.., : - ~J

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