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2. Mexican featherwork - Wikipedia

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   In Oaxaca, there is the Dance of the Feather, which used dyed ostrich feathers and for the Dance of Calala, in Suchiapa, Chiapas, the main dancer uses a fan of turkey and rooster feathers. Ostrich feathers are the most common in traditional dance costumes, followed by rooster, turkey and hen feathers.

3. Cawston Ostrich Farm - Wikipedia

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   Guests were able to ride on the backs of ostriches, be taken for ostrich drawn carriage rides and buy ostrich feathered hats, boas, capes and fans at the Ostrich Farm store that was connected to the factory. The ostrich farm feather products were shipped and sold throughout the world. The farm closed in 1935. [4]

4. Achievement (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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   It includes the badge of an ostrich feather, here shown as a pair, blazoned: feather argent pen gobonne argent and azure. In heraldry, an achievement, armorial achievement or heraldic achievement (historical: hatchment) is a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled. [2]

5. Shuti hieroglyph (two-feather adornment) - Wikipedia

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   They can be compared to the ostrich features in the Atef crown of Osiris, or the single ostrich feather that symbolizes Maat. The shuti hieroglyph and crown may be based upon Maat's ostrich feather, the single curved-top "shu-feather" hieroglyph. It is shown in iconography in both the straight-feather form (when used as a doubled crown ...

6. Moctezuma's headdress - Wikipedia

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   As such, the headdress, made of feathers, gold, wood, and vegetable fibers, would have been placed on a bamboo stick and positioned on a distinguished soldier’s back. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] Esther Pasztory has suggested that there is evidence that headdresses, such as this piece, were part of the Aztec royalty for ritualistic purposes, especially to be ...

7. Masai ostrich - Wikipedia

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   The Masai ostrich (Struthio camelus massaicus), also known as the East African ostrich is a red-necked subspecies variety of the common ostrich and is endemic to East Africa. [2] [3] It is one of the largest birds in the world, second only to its sister subspecies Struthio camelus camelus. [4] Today it is farmed for eggs, meat, and feathers. [5 ...