Mexican featherwork, also called "plumería", was an important artistic and decorative technique in the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods in what is now...
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Featherwork is the working of feathers into a work of art or cultural artifact. This was especially elaborate among the peoples of Oceania and the Americas...
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Piñata (redirect from Mexican Piñata song)
mid-December. According to local records, the Mexican piñata tradition began in the town of Acolman, just north of Mexico City, where piñatas were introduced for...
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particularly headdresses in Latin America, most prominently Mexico (see Mexican featherwork) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct genera...
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Moctezuma's headdress (category Featherwork)
Moctezuma's headdress is a featherwork headdress or military device, (Nahuatl languages: quetzalāpanecayōtl [ketsalaːpaneˈkajoːtɬ]) which tradition holds...
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Mexican featherwork painting of Isidore the Laborer made from duck, hummingbird, and canary feathers. This style of painting, popular during the Novohispanic...
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Tupinambá cape (category Featherwork)
influenced manufacture, as seen with the production of featherwork with Catholic motifs in colonial Mexico. The feather capes of the Tupinambás featured in...
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Aztecs (category Pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico)
conserving feathers, fewer than ten pieces of original Aztec featherwork exist today. Mexico City was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, gradually replacing...
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were painted or covered with featherwork. They are depicted frequently in the Codex Mendoza, and many other central Mexican codices, usually with the xicalcoliuhqui...
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Nicasio Pajarito Gonzalez (category Mexican potters)
Nicasio Pajarito Gonzalez (born October 13, 1935) is a Mexican potter from Tonalá, Jalisco known for his canelo ware. Pajarito Gonzalez has worked with...
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Feather headdress (category Featherwork)
bonnet (Plains Indians) Montezuma's headdress (Mexico) Mahiole (Hawaii) Toupha (Byzantium) Featherwork This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Mexican War of Independence, the development Mexican national identity through art in the nineteenth century, and the florescence of modern Mexican art...
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Midori Suzuki (artist) (category Mexican artists)
arrived to Mexico, she was impressed by its pre Hispanic culture, especially its ceramics and featherwork. She says the working in Mexico allows her more...
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collections. These include the collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century featherwork headdresses and ornaments from the Amazon Basin, Andean textiles and...
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notably gold but especially silver. The Chimú also are noted for their featherwork, having produced many standards and headdresses made of a variety of...
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Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin (category 16th-century Mexican people)
and whose descendants are still present today in Mexico City. Huanitzin may have created a featherwork representation of the Mass of Saint Gregory, after...
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Alexander Skutch David Snow Alexander Wilson Mark Cocker Pete Dunne Featherwork Quill Birds portal Dinosaur Outline of dinosaurs Bird at Wikipedia's...
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materials and colors. It is the only garment in Mexico which uses the pre Hispanic art of featherwork today. This huipil is often used for weddings as...
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"otlachimalli". There were also ornamental shields decorated with motifs made in featherwork, these were called māhuizzoh chimalli. Ichcahuīpīlli: Quilted cotton...
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flexible woven material, as well as felt, bark cloth, knitting, embroidery, featherwork, skin-sewing, beadwork, and similar media. Textile arts are one of the...
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Swan maiden (section Mexico)
Reina, Ruben E.; Kensinger, Kenneth M. (1991). The Gift of Birds: Featherworking of Native South American Peoples. UPenn Museum of Archaeology. p. 104...
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R. (eds.), Thames & Hudson, London (2013) Sacred Featherwork of the Inca. In Peruvian Featherworks: Art of the Precolumbian Era, King, H. (ed.), the...
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the one that impressed Westerners the most, the sophisticated and rich featherwork. Tupi literature appears with the arrival of European writing, when missionaries...
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in access to stone and metals, Amazonian indigenous peoples excel at featherwork, painting, textiles, and ceramics. Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Cave of...
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indigenous clothing and colonial-era garb. It has a kind of embroidery and featherwork “dictionary” designed to explain the significance of the different designs...
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Silverhorn are all known for their German silver work, beadwork, and featherwork. His great-granddaughter, Katherine Dickerson is a Kiowa beadworker,...
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Mixtec culture (category Pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico)
exported luxury goods to other regions, such as polychrome ceramics, featherwork, goldsmithing, rock crystal, bone, and wood carvings, as well as livelihood...
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honoring the culture of Hawaii, including a painting by Herb Kawainui Kāne, featherwork by Jo-Anne Kahanamoku-Sterling, kapa by Puanani Van Dorpe, bronze sculptures...
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collection comprised mostly objects related to the textile manufacturing, featherwork, ceramic production, and stonecraft of the Andean cultures (groups of...
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States, Honduran pot sherds, Egyptian coffins, Mexican masks, Guatemalan textiles, Amazonian featherwork, and the iconic Tulane pennant exemplify the range...
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