Sentences with phrase «century headdress»
In several paintings women are featured in elaborate tignons, an 18th century headdress imposed by law for women of color in New Orleans and a tradition that although imposed as a form of oppression became, through elaborate patterning and design, a symbol of power and beauty.
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Several of the protesters wore Native American headdresses similar to the band of 18th century colonists who dumped tea in Boston Harbor to express outrage about British taxes.
However, archaeologists realized in 1978 that Franciscan monks had corrupted the name from «Lam «an / ayin» to «Lamanai,» and that adding the correct suffix of «ayin» changed the meaning of the name to submerged crocodile, a conclusion supported by the large number of crocodile representations found at Lamanai, including figurines, pottery decorations and the headdress of a 13 foot limestone mask found on a 6th century temple platform.
Catalog from the exhibition, «Six Centuries of Headdress,» April 3 — May 1, 1955, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts to parallel the Bal aux Chapeau sponsored by the Dallas Fashion Group.