2025-07-19, On a rare? history of jingle dress cones

Terran shared a Twitter post with me where someone was suggesting a Fallout video game original character where the jingles on their jingle dress were made of shell casings, and apparently, this whole history I have of jingle dress cones made from tobacco tins and other improvisations is not as widely known as I thought.

It sent me into thinking about how histories of Indigenous material culture get flattened or aestheticized in fandom spaces, and how easy it is for details with deep context to be replaced by “cool post-apocalyptic” variants that read well to people outside those traditions.