Word: headdress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search of the key to the diamond cache, she tames a lion with her bare hands to prove to the Lion Men that she is their goddess. Her headdress slips, revealing her mortality, and she is put up for sacrifice. Saved, she sneaks into the treasure cove by a back entrance, tumbles into a torture pit and is showered with a deadly...
...graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...
DEATH CAME DANCING- Kathleen Moore Knight-Crime Club ($2). At the Pollera Ball in Panama, Mrs. Richmond, native seductress, appears with her ancestral gold and jeweled headdress, and a minor English diplomat. When murder is done, Elisha Macomber, sage of Penberthy Island, Me., cleans up the mess...