Word: headdresses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Indian nationalist groups like the American Indian Movement (AIM), team names like "Braves" or "Indians," let alone the overtly bigoted "Redskins," degrade Native peoples to the status of mascots. They say using sacred symbols as team logos, such as the feathered headdress, is an act of "cultural appropriation" and indicates a failure to take Indian religions seriously...
...girl outfit, a jeweled network of baubles and beads cascading down her lithe body. A feather from her sequined cape floats past her painted red lips, and she blows it away matter-of-factly. Ten pounds of rhinestones, wires and multicolored feathers ascend 3 ft. over her head. The headdress hurts. Bates must crouch down and walk ducklike to clear the door to the stage...
...along with jaguars and eagles. Another is the 7th century stucco head from the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, which is clearly a portrait, perhaps of the ruler Pacal II. Yet even in this effigy of an individual, the great bladelike nose and the forward sweep of the headdress like the comb of a cockatoo suggest a hieratic type...