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The Tupinambá cape, mantle, or cloak is a 17th-century feathered cape. It was made by the Tupinambás, an indigenous tribe of the Tupi people, who inhabited modern-day Brazil. It is made of bird feathers and vegetable fibres. The cape is held in the collections of the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels.
A Hawaiian ‘ahu‘ula (feathered cape). Aztec feather shield 'meander and sun" (around 1520, Landesmuseum Württemberg) 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, such as the Incas and Aztecs.
Haalelea's Feather Cape. The ʻahu ʻula (feather cape or cloak in the Hawaiian language, literally "red/sacred garment for the upper torso" [1]), [2] and the mahiole (feather helmet) were symbols of the highest rank of the chiefly aliʻi [3] class of ancient Hawaii. There are over 160 examples of this traditional clothing in museums around the ...
In collaboration with Sony Pictures, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) announced the return of the CAPE Animation Directors Accelerator. The initiative aims to identify and ...
LiLi Roquelin is a French-American singer, songwriter, composer, record producer from Astoria, Queens, New York City.Roquelin is most notable for her songs which won Best Music Video at several film festivals and received TV and Film placements and for being featured in a New York Times article.
A 200-year-old Mahiole alongside a feathered cape. The Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu has a 200-year-old mahiole and matching cloak. This bright red and yellow mahiole was given to the king of Kauaʻi , Kaumualiʻi , when he became a vassal to Kamehameha I in 1810, uniting all the islands into the Kingdom of Hawaii .
A mythical enemy-incinerating kapa (barkcloth) cape, retold as a feather skirt in one telling, occurs in Hawaiian mythology. In the tradition regarding the hero ʻAukelenuiaʻīkū, [c] the hero's grandmother Moʻoinanea who is matriarch of the divine lizards (moʻo akua, or simply moʻo) gives him her severed tail, which transforms into a cape (or kapa lehu, i.e. tapa) that turns enemies into ...
The look was made complete by her voluminous feather headpiece. "I was coming around and Jane Fonda was coming around, and she looked at me and said, ‘Cher, please wait until I get back to my ...