File talk:Canadian First Nations girl, costume with integrated Hello Kitty earrings.jpg

Earrings?

Marc-Lautenbacher, are you sure the Hello-Kitty beadwoven panels are earrings? They look to me to be hair ornaments fastened to her braids, for stylistic and structural reasons; they and their pendants would very heavy as earrings! I think her earrings are the smaller round things, with the "medicine wheel" motif. HLHJ (talk) 19:13, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Hallo HLHJ,

thanks for your question and your very attentive observation on my photograph, taken on the Pow-Wow festival on 28-06-2014 at 11:30:25 in Wendake near Quebec City. As I was there several hours as an observer and as a reporter for a German magazine, I can tell you that I'm absolutely sure, the girl was wearing earrings. I saw her much closer as it appears on my photograph. The smaller round things are the earring clips that attach the jewelry to the earlobes. The Hello Kitty faces have been embroidered - even self-made - with beads and which are applied to a kind of a paper thin foam that is light as a feather. This lightness of the material allows to attach two more beaded ribbons that fall on the shoulders of the girl. Thanks again for your critical comment and for giving extra thoughts to whether I was bull-shitting as a responsible image author! Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 03:53, 26 August 2022 (UTC)