Mexican featherwork, also called "plumería", was an important artistic and decorative technique in the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods in what is now...

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...

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...

Mexican featherwork painting of Isidore the Laborer made from duck, hummingbird, and canary feathers. This style of painting, popular during the Novohispanic...

terms of origin, patron, and function. The object's function was perhaps featherwork headdress or military device. In the Nahuatl languages, it is known as...

particularly headdresses in Latin America, most prominently Mexico (see Mexican featherwork) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct genera...

bonnet (Plains Indians) Montezuma's headdress (Mexico) Mahiole (Hawaii) Toupha (Byzantium) Featherwork This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Mexican War of Independence, the development Mexican national identity through art in the nineteenth century, and the florescence of modern Mexican art...

conserving feathers, fewer than ten pieces of original Aztec featherwork exist today. Mexico City was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, gradually replacing...

were painted or covered with featherwork. They are depicted frequently in the Codex Mendoza, and many other central Mexican codices, usually with the xicalcoliuhqui...

influenced manufacture, as seen with the production of featherwork with Catholic motifs in colonial Mexico. The feather capes of the Tupinambás featured in...

over his career. Villena Hernández was born in Mexico City to parents who taught him to respect Mexican traditions and encouraged his interest in them...

Nicasio Pajarito Gonzalez (born October 13, 1935) is a Mexican potter from Tonalá, Jalisco known for his canelo ware. Pajarito Gonzalez has worked with...

Silverhorn are all known for their German silver work, beadwork, and featherwork. His great-granddaughter, Katherine Dickerson is a Kiowa beadworker,...

and whose descendants are still present today in Mexico City. Huanitzin may have created a featherwork representation of the Mass of Saint Gregory, after...

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...

indigenous clothing and colonial-era garb. It has a kind of embroidery and featherwork “dictionary” designed to explain the significance of the different designs...

"otlachimalli". There were also ornamental shields decorated with motifs made in featherwork, these were called māhuizzoh chimalli. Ichcahuīpīlli: Quilted cotton...

collections. These include the collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century featherwork headdresses and ornaments from the Amazon Basin, Andean textiles and...

flexible woven material, as well as felt, bark cloth, knitting, embroidery, featherwork, skin-sewing, beadwork, and similar media. Textile arts are one of the...

carving Doll making Dollhouse Egg decorating Engraved gems Faux painting Featherwork Kāhili Grotesque Gargoyle Hardstone carving Inro Lath art Lapidary Leatherworking...

the one that impressed Westerners the most, the sophisticated and rich featherwork. Tupi literature appears with the arrival of European writing, when missionaries...

exported luxury goods to other regions, such as polychrome ceramics, featherwork, goldsmithing, rock crystal, bone, and wood carvings, as well as livelihood...

R. (eds.), Thames & Hudson, London (2013) Sacred Featherwork of the Inca. In Peruvian Featherworks: Art of the Precolumbian Era, King, H. (ed.), the...

in access to stone and metals, Amazonian indigenous peoples excel at featherwork, painting, textiles, and ceramics. Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Cave of...

carving Doll making Dollhouse Egg decorating Engraved gems Faux painting Featherwork Kāhili Grotesque Gargoyle Hardstone carving Inro Lath art Lapidary Leatherworking...

Alvarez Bravo, experimented with photomontage on life and social issues in Mexican cities. In Argentina during the late 1940s, the German exile, Grete Stern...

Reina, Ruben E.; Kensinger, Kenneth M. (1991). The Gift of Birds: Featherworking of Native South American Peoples. UPenn Museum of Archaeology. p. 104...

collection comprised mostly objects related to the textile manufacturing, featherwork, ceramic production, and stonecraft of the Andean cultures (groups of...

notably gold but especially silver. The Chimú also are noted for their featherwork, having produced many standards and headdresses made of a variety of...