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photograph of a person cosplaying harrowhark nonagesimus. they have buzzed short black hair and skull paint and are kneeling on the floor. They are wearing a long black cloak embroidered with bones, an embroidered stole, bone rosary, bone ribcage, bone ring splints, and have three keys (black, white, red) clipped to their belt. ALT
photo of the same harrowhark cosplayer, but now a close up of their torso, they are wearing a stole with a ninth house skull embroidered on it, a ribcage, wearing bone ring splints, a carabiner with 3 keys (red/black/white), and a wallet chain with teeth. They are also wearing a lot of bracelets of teeth and are holding a bone rosary. ALT
Same cosplayer, now a detail photo of the back their ribcage has a full spine and scapula. ALT

DEATH FIRST TO VULTURES AND SCAVENGERS

🦴 Harrow, photo editing, bones et al by me!
📸 photo and harrow robe by @trickstercheshi

took these pics like 2? months and then totally forgot to post them here! anyway Harrow currently features 122 hand sculpted bones (86 of which are in the rosary!), not counting the spares I made or the 336 resin teeth I bought & drilled for her bracelets and waist chain.

my central requirement for this cosplay is basically that every bone (except the face/ear jewlery) HAS to be made as close as possible in size and shape to an anatomically accurate human bone, because I am nothing of not committed to the inherent wonder of human anatomy. this means: no bone tits, no sizing bones up or down as convenient for aesthetics, no animal bones. I think it turned out great and I’m soooooo excited to make EVEN MORE bones for when I wear her next >:3

rigcage progress is documented on tumblr here, and under the cut are some extra ramblings & detail photos of her rosary & stole!

the rosary is based off of normal catholic rosaries, altered it to fit Ninth House aesthetics. a normal rosary has 5 sections (“Mysteries”) made of 10 beads each.

MY rosary has nine (9!!) sections for the Ninthefold ressurection, with each section being made of 8 bones. specifically, each section is made of carpal bones, and there is one carpal bone per section to represent each populated House. anatomy fun fact! humans have 8 different carpal bones in the body (one set in each wrist) all of which I lovingly sculpted to attempted anatomical accuracy.

hand holding a little box that holds all 86 hand made carpal bones and phalangesALT

phalanges are the “separating” (“Our Father”?) beads, and the hanging centerpiece is a metacarpal articulating with 3 phalanges – “the knuckle of your great-grandmother that represented the Rock, and the Universe, and God.” (HtN p. 118).

I went back and forth on what I wanted the centerpiece to be, because “knuckle” has an original anatomical meaning (the talus bone – of like, sheep, so not an option here per my central requirement) but it also has several colloquial meanings. I’ve heard “knuckle” being used to describe both the interphalangeal joints of the fingers and the metacarpalphalangeal joint as well. I actually did end up sculpting a life sized human talus bone to test how it would look as the centerpiece, but rejected it due to it simply looking very goofy due to scale and size (it was too big 😔). I also learned how to do a proper hail mary knot for this!

anyway: behold some more pics

the rosary as it is being strung, a WIP shotALT
Hand holding the rosaryALT

for Harrow’s stole, I was inspired by @/thatbonejunky’s art here as well as @/bondibee’s art here! I really wanted to lean into the religious leader aspect of her character. Harrow as not the Reverend *Daughter*, but the *Reverend* Daughter – especially as this is, due to my own proclivities, definitely a Butch Harrow™ cosplay. The fabric is this cool celtic pattern from JoAnns and the skull is applique + hand beading! I went back and forth on if I should give her tassles on the bottom or not but honestly it came down to tassels just seeming more dramatic, and Harrow deserves this

very dark green/black stole (religious vestment) with black tassels on the end, and skulls with the symbol IXALT
close up of the skull aplique, showing beading around the edgesALT

phew ok that was a lot of rambling. all bones are made of creative paperclay, an air dry clay, and painted with basic acrylics. did you know you can find hundreds of free 3D models of bones free online on sketchfab or by searching “[bone name] 3D model”. what was i saying. anyway. i love bone :)