POTC-What's that white thing?

[Sjöröveren]

What the heck is that long white thing in Capt. Jack Sparrows hair? I've seen that movie a dozen or two times, even done freeze frame and zoom in on the DVD, and I still can't figure out what it is. Is it a bone? a feather? a pipe? I'm stumped!

[HarborMaster]

I believe it to be bone.

HarborMaster

[Dreamie D'Avanzo]

Aye a bone. It's on the end of a red string I believe, and tied around that big ol' clump of hair on the top of his head.... which is why he looks like he's got a pony tail.

I made a few of 'em fer me own hair.

[Matty Bottles]

in another thread I'm too lazy to look up, I believe someone suggested it was an old sail needle.

[Rumba Rue]

It looks like a bone of some kind.

I was at the Indian Store near here, and came across some coyote bones that looked very similar, also very inexpensive.

RumbaRue

**I had a mind once....**

[Sjöröveren]

Bone was my first guess too. I've seen Lakota flutes made from a wing bone of a bald eagle, but I couldn't examine it, since it's considered a sacred object and not something thats passed around out of curiosity. But it looked alot like the thing in Jacks hair. Hollow, kind of a flattened tube. I suppose it could be an albatross bone or something. Anyway, its way cool.

['Salem Bob']

...And here I was, under the impression it was the stem of a pipe.

[Zephyr]

And I was wondering why he didn't use "IT" to pick the lock on his cell...or his hand cuffs....or...something....I thought it must 'ave been a one a those spikes that sailors use to pick knots an such......though I can't imagine sleeping with it in me hair....... (lack of imagination on my part)

speakn' of interesting costuming....notice how many pirates are wearing their cuffs over their hands?

[Zorg]

The "fallin cuff" thing was pretty common in seacoats through the 1800.s. Let em hang, and they keeps yr hands warm, button em up, and ye get a fashion statement.

[Capt Grey]

Aye, I be thinkin' it be a rib bone o'some sea creature. I also be noticin' that the recreators ain't includin' it in their recreations.

Maybe it be from them sea turtles ol' Jack lashed t'gether fer a raft.

[Zephyr]

The "fallin cuff" thing was pretty common in seacoats through the 1800.s. Let em hang, and they keeps yr hands warm, button em up, and ye get a fashion statement.

Ahhhhh.....where seeming common sense meets historical accuracy...there was me thinkn'...well surely those drooooping cuffs would be in the way of a true sailn' person........hands busy with the rigging and such all day long.......

[Lady Elaina]

Did anyone notice in the end scene where they gave Jack Sparrow back his ship.. that there is a guy in a white cowboy hat and sunglasses looking over the side of the ship in the background???

yes that is a bone in our Jack's hair.

gabrielle

[BatSpell]

I had too see if it were true....about the guy in the white cowboy hat and sunglasses...so I went to me Pyrates Of The Caribbean movie on DVD....and damned sure enough...i paused and zoomed in...Viola!.....editing at it's perfection!...LOL...they obviously missed this cowboy gone a pyratin'...Very funny stuff.....actually...I wanted to zoom in on Captain Jack Sparrows' the real reason I put the movie in ...::Wink, Wink::

Tis' true, Thar be Cowboys in Pyrates waters....but you know...I never seen a cow in the ocean in me entire life...Really!

Deadly Drucilla

[Katie Nameless]

I was under the belief that it was the tail of a stingray. Either way it's part of a carcass and my ethics would have me just as soon make one out of wood. :)

[Hunting Hawk]

I wondered what that were when I first sar it. After thinkin bout it fer awhile though, I think that the only thing it could be, is a whale bone stay from some lady's corsette. It just don't look like nothin else to me.