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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Focus on Crafts: Feather Preparation
- May & June Powwows & Rendezvous
- Catalog 27 for 2010
- Current Sales & Specials
- New From Crazy Crow for 2010
- Crazy Crow's Women's Shawl Dance Photo Gallery
- Crazy Crow Features Native American Singing Groups
- New Recording Layouts Offer Different Ways to Find What You're Looking For!
- Follow Crazy Crow on Twitter & Facebook!
- New "Searchable" Event Calendar - Fast AND Easy-to-Use!
- Gift Certificates: Always the Right Size!
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As we approach Memorial Day and the official beginning of the 2010 powwow and rendezvous season, Crazy Crow continues to introduce new items, offer specials and sales, and provide information and resources to help our friends and customers with the widest variety of crafts and hard-to-get craft supplies available.
We are pleased to announce the mailing of our new Catalog 27 at the end of April. Be sure to check out all the new items online, and take advantage of savings on items that have been "closed out or discontinued" for various reasons (usually because there is no longer a reliable supply).
Since our last issue of "Craft E-Crow", we have added a new photo gallery (Women's Fancy Shawl Dancers), a new section on Native American Singing Groups, and added a major new Craft Focus article on imitation eagle Feather Preparation
We keep adding to the line of books that we publish, with the reprinting and improvement of such titles as "A Focus on Feathers." Any book with an item number that ends with "900" is among the growing list of Crazy Crow publications.
We will continue to improve the way we present our products to you online, taking advantage of technology to enhance the detail we can show you related to products, as well as craft and culture articles, photo galleries, slide shows and video. You'll find this year we will be adding greatly enhanced graphic displays for individual items, making it easier for you to pick the right products for your projects. We'll also be connecting more related product information and groupings such as our new Native American recording layout.
We continue to take part in the online social media boom on Twitter and Facebook, and invite you to join us there so we can more easily update you on new things you may find of interest.
As always, we appreciate your ideas, emails, and of course, your business, and look forward to hearing from you again soon!
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Craft Focus: Feather Preparation
Making Imitation Eagle Feathers Look Like the "Real Thing"
Crazy Crow's latest "Craft Focus" article provides step-by-step, illustrated, online instructions to help you make your imitation eagle feathers look like the "real thing"! Steps include: sorting, straightening, preening the web, trimming, extending, adding fluffs, base preparation, base wrapping, and related books and products to help with your project.
Look for our next feather preparation article for turkey spikes used with fancy dance bustles.
Read complete article on our Turkey Wing Feather Preparation
Powwows, Rendezvous & Related Events
Upcoming May & June Events
These calendars of Powwows, Rendezvous & Related Events are brought to you as a courtesy of Crazy Crow Trading Post to help keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings.
We will do our best to validate the accuracy of the information provided, but cannot be responsible for inaccuracies. Check with the contact names and website links of event sponsors for the latest information.
If you don't see your Powwow, Rendezvous, Mountain Man, Muzzleloading or Reenactment related event listed - use the Add Your Event form to submit it online.
NEW CROW CALLS SALE: MAY - JUNE
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Memorial Day is getting near - Powwows and Rendezvous more frequent. Crazy Crow offers opportunities to save big on some of our most popular craft supply items. This Crow Calls also introduces many great new items (see next section). Of course you can order everything online, any time of day (or night!).
Use the link (at the right) to display and download the Acrobat/PDF file to your PC to use for reference, or click the other link to view all Crow Calls items for September - October online.
May - June Crow Calls Sale Items Include:
- Hand-Forged Throwing Hawks
- Hand-Forged Hawks & Axes
- Hand Forged Frontier Knives
- Premium Grade Sheep Leaher- White & Lt Smoked Colors
- Hand Painted Feathers
- Strung Fluffs
- Natural Barred Turkey Wings
- Turkey Wing Feathers- Black
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- Ringneck Pheasant Skins
- Imported Beaded Rossettes
- German Silverwork
- Gorgets
- Antique Finish Trade Pewter
- Northern Style Conchos
- Washer Brooches
- Ring Brooches
- Buckle Blanks
- Beaded Knife Sheaths
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- Quilled Sheath Closeout
- Rabbit Skins
- Deer Toes & Dew Claws
- Tin Ware Coffee Pots
- Super Deluze Double Trailer Warbonnets - New Low Price
- Native American Dance Ceremonies & Social Traditions SC Book- Closeout
- Carved Fetish Assortments
- Shell Discs: Mother of Pear, Melon, Brown Lip, Paua
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NEW . . FROM CRAZY CROW!
Go to the New Items section online to see everything we've added this year. The items listed below are some of the most recent additions.
NOTE: Items pictured are reference in the list by the number shown in the image.
New "Searchable" Event Calendar - Fast AND Easy-to-Use!
Search by Date & Now by Date (with a Google Map!)
A searchable powwow & rendezvous database . . what's the big deal?
Special note since this was first run in September 2009: Hundreds of organizations have taken advantage of our new online database format. We are adding it to this eNews to point this out to anyone who has missed it "in-between".
Crazy Crow has provided event listings online for almost eight years. It's been an effort of "love", as doing these, without an automated database, as anyone will tell you is a lot of work. It's easy to get behind on all the listings, and worse, while the listing provides helpful information, it's not as easy to use as it would be in a searchable database.
Making a better mousetrap (again): We found a handful of powwow and rendezvous database-driven lists on the web, and for the most part found the entry process too lengthy or cumbersome, and displaying search results too slow.
Easy, quick entry for lots of details: With that in mind, we worked to create an entry form that would let you add lots of info, and in sections for easier use by viewer (if you wanted to); or just provide basic info in just a few seconds.
Search by Date and/or State: The biggest request we've received over the years has been to provide a list of events by state. Without a database, that is just not practical. We're happy to be able to do that now, by US State, or Canadian Province. We're working toward a search by distance as well, so that you could look for events within a certain distance of your starting point.
Google Maps: Our Google map display is at the state or regional level to give you an idea of where the event is, but is not done to the street address-level, as many events don't have such an address. Viewers can use the Google links provided to get any other detail they want from that point, however, including driving directions.
NOTE: All events are in the database from August 2010 and forward. Past events will be viewable in our old format. We will keep these online as usual, as it is not uncommon for someone get information from a prior year's listing before the current years event is online.
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Catalog 27 for 2010
You'll find everything you need in beads and beading supplies, bone hairpipe, tubes and beads, a wide variety of feathers, leathers, furs, claws and such, authentic broadcloth and other period fabrics, Pendleton blankets and other products, fringe and ribbon, dozens of the finest patterns and kits, books, videos, recordings, camp goods, and so much more. Order Catalog 27 online now!
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Featured Indian Singing Groups
"Black Lodge Singers"
Black Lodge Singers are one of the most respected northern style drum groups on the pow-wow circuit, highly in demand as a host drum throughout the United States and Canada. The Black Lodge Singers are Kenny Scabby Robe(Blackfeet), his wife Louise (Yakima), and his 12 sons.
Includes video of group, listing and description of their recordings, with audio clips of each song.
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New Recordings Layout Online
Making it Easier to Find What You Want!
We are "breaking a few eggs" regarding how Native American recordings have been offered all these years. Seems they have always been listed by recording company, meaning if you are looking for songs from a particular region of the country, songs by dance type, or songs by a particular singing group, you'll be able to do so easily. We also now have audio clips for all the Canyon recordings offered, and are working on it for Indian House.
That will be changing as we move forward to make our store and site more interactive so that we can make it easier for you to navigate, find related items, provide more product detail and bigger images, etc.
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Follow "The Crow . . ."
Now on Twitter & Facebook!
Click the buttons above to follow CRAZY CROW on twitter and facebook!
Get the latest information about new items and unadvertised specials, events and news of interest as it happens (and while it's available if it's notice of a limited time twitter-notice-only special!
NOTE: You must join Twitter (you can't miss that button when you click the above twitter link) to follow us and get our special "tweets" (messages). It only takes seconds (if you aren't already a member). After you're a member you just click our "JOIN" button. To view our tweets, you'll need to go to your page (www.twitter.com/ + YOUR user name. Suggestion - don't use an email address for the user name. Also, after you join, be sure to "deselect" the list of twenty sites that are preselected to follow - unless you really do want to follow them!
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DANCE STYLES
PHOTO GALLERIES
Gallery 2: Fancy Shawl Dancers
We have launched the second of a series of online photo and video libraries that are each focused on a particular dance style. There are many great photo galleries on the Web, but we've found that the images are in chronological order for the event, not by dancer style/type (that would be helpful for those looking for craft ideas or inspiration. The idea of our galleries is to organize photos, videos, and even informative text, by dance style. The second of these galleries is Women's Fancy Shawl Dance. Other Galleries will include Men's Southern Traditional/Straight Dance, Men's Northern Traditional, Men's Grass Dance, Women's Northern Buckskin, Women's Southern Buckskin, and more. Check back often to see how we progress.
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ONE SIZE FITS ALL OCCASIONS!!
A perfect gift for holidays, birthdays, or any time you like to treat someone special.
- Sent directly to recipient or you
- Valid for one year
- Minimum $10 - no maximum
- Can be purchased via phone, fax, internet or mail
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