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16. The Tupinumbá Sacred Mantle
By Amelia Hutchinson (@ameliagraceh_) ‘In my opinion I have never seen anything which for beauty could more delight the human eye’ – Peter Martyr (1519) upon seeing the first feather-works to arrive in Europe.[1] Feather-work items formed an integral part of early modern Mesoamerican and Andean visual and material culture. Using carefully selected colours and…
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