featherwork

Paraguay is particularly known for its indigenous featherwork and basket weaving.

Not all Peruvian featherwork was intended for personal decoration.

Featherwork cloaks have been used by several cultures.

Its yellow feathers were used to create capes and hats (featherwork) for royalty.

It is the only garment in Mexico which uses the pre Hispanic art of featherwork today.

A precolumbian art form, featherwork provides distinctive personal adornment.

Featherwork pieces took on European motifs in Mexico.

The statement also said that Mr. Small "voluntarily surrendered his entire featherwork collection to the government."

Alan Steele, a private dealer, sells featherwork, baskets and pottery, mostly to raise consciousness about the beauty of the objects.

It has a kind of embroidery and featherwork "dictionary" designed to explain the significance of the different designs found in the exhibits.

"What featherwork did," Mr. Rose said, "was to mark the wearer apart, particularly in warfare."

Other examples of ritual featherwork include a bag holding coca leaves made by Inca craftsmen within a century or so before the conquest.

These helmets are made from a woven frame structure decorated with bird feathers and are examples of fine featherwork techniques.

The producers of featherwork, sculptures, jewelry, and other luxury items were full-time commoner specialists who worked for noble patrons.

The feathers of the kioea were not used in Hawaiian featherwork, nor is it mentioned in any chants or legends.

Well-preserved examples of featherwork are rare, because feathers are easily damaged and, like other organic materials, decompose.

Sacred Featherwork of the Inca.

There were also ornamental shields decorated with motifs made in featherwork, these were called māhuizzoh chimalli.

Hawaiian collections from Cook's voyages show in particular the extent and variation of Hawaiian featherwork at the time.

Some 75 works on view - paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, prints, metalwork, featherwork and textiles - address the ways symbolic images of Christ were used.

Traditionally limited in access to stone and metals, Amazonian indigenous peoples excel at featherwork, painting, textiles, and ceramics.

Xicalcoliuhqui chimalli, are shields featuring a single iteration of the stepped fret motif which were painted or covered with featherwork.

Suzuki states that when she arrived to Mexico, she was impressed by its pre Hispanic culture, especially its ceramics and featherwork.

The natives of Ulatos had proven most cooperative, arriving at Helmsport laden with food, octal, and featherwork, but no more gold.

Huanitzin may have created a featherwork representation of the Mass of Saint Gregory, after a Dutch engraving.