About My Costume

Yo, yo, yo!  What do ya know?  It's Painted Bobcat again, and I'm back with some more Mic-O-Say experiences for you crazy people!  It's time I talked about my costume a little bit because I think I have a constructed a pretty neat costume, and I want to talk about it for a while.  So let's get right into it, as I explained in my first post, I need to construct a complete costume in order to advance from Brave to Warrior, so I'm gonna give a list of what I need to be able to count my costume as complete, (for now).  Anklets/Apache leggings, knee bells, breech clothe, arm bustles, back bustle, choker, face paint, solid-colored gym shorts, moccasins (no other type of shoe), and a rattle. I have worked hard on my costume, and I must say, I'm kinda proud of it, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna add on to it in the future, 'cause I am.  I think the best piece of the costume is my headband, now the reason I say this is because it has my favorite color coordination, (red, black, white) with a bobcat design in the center to match my tribal name, "Painted Bobcat."  The design on my headband is made of small beads    which took a long time to put together on a special bead loom.  My rattle is made of a horn filled with small  beads attached to a rod that has a string with a few beads on it for decoration.  My arm and back bustles are red spike feathers with black fluff feathers on the tips attached to a base with small, circular mirrors in the middle for my arm bustles strapped to my biceps.   My back bustles are red spike feathers with white fluff feathers around the base with a nice, circular rosette in the middle strapped to my lower back.  My breech clothe is red and  goes down to below my knees, I have red anklets with frayed ends strapped to my ankles, I have one feather sticking up at the back of my headband.  You my not know this, but I originally had bells attached to a strip of leather strapped around my biceps below my arm bustles, though they were hidden most of the time, but they broke, so I'm gonna have to do something about that.  You all should know where my knee bells go, on my fingers, of course!  No, not really. :-) They went just above my knees around my lower thigh, so when I walk, you should be able to hear them jingle.  Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...:-)   My face paint is kind of a bobcats whiskers on my cheeks with blood coming out of my mouth, like I just killed my breakfast for the day, and of course, I have to where my claw around my neck.  A lot of Mic-O-Say tribesmen like to do there own thing and they sometimes construct a better costume than mine and can also dance better than me too, with either fancy, flashy colors, or dull, traditional colors.  I'm gonna show you all a picture of me in my costume below, go ahead and check it out 

                                                                                                                                                           Again, to learn more about the tribe of the Mic-O Say go here www.micosay.org/