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headdress is a decorative item worn on the head, typically by people from certain cultures or as part of traditional costumes. It can include feathers, beads, fabric, or other materials to create an ornamental headpiece.
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He must have seen voluminous African
headdresses of every shape and color.
Bes is depicted as a dwarf with lion - like features and sometimes wears a Nubian - style
headdress with feathers.
As a longtime fan, I kept thinking it would be fantastic to see one of these heads huge, outfitted in the most outrageous
headdress in all of art history: Aztec headgear by way of art nouveau, sand castles, and topological maps.
The people hunted red deer, among other animals, and made
headdresses from their antlers.
Rainbow Club have got a super stylish collection of
headdresses for you to choose from for your big day.
This contemporary scheme has been punctuated with touches of soft lilac for a floaty, feminine feel, while feather
headdresses make wonderful decorations above the bed.
But it was the
elaborate headdress adorned with butterflies, flowers and dragonflies which really captured my attention.
Her rival in the top three categories, R&B queen Beyoncé, flaunted her pregnant belly in a sheer, sparkling gold gown and a halo -
like headdress as she performed an ode to motherhood.
The queen known as Lady K'abel is shown in ceremonial
headdress on a 9 - foot - tall limestone monument dubbed Waka Stela 34.
Also included will be a large sculpture of hematite and wood resembling an abstracted
African headdress with hints of bondage found in the metal and black leather detailing.
Venerated by the Aztecs and Mayans, whose rulers
wore headdresses made out of its long tail feathers, the bird has a bright green body, a red breast, and green upper tail feathers that conceal its tail; in males, these feathers are longer than its body.
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.
The deep rouge walls of the hallway are decorated with colourful
ceremonial headdresses from the Cameroonian Juju tribe, imported from a market in Johannesburg.
Ensor's artist studio Sketch a still life scene, try on a handmade
headdress by Hysteria Machine and have your photo taken to commemorate your stay at Ensor's place.
Whether it's wire sculpture made from found materials, toys fashioned from tin cans,
traditional headdresses painstakingly weaved, hand - beaded and hand - carved dolls, or pieces wrapped in textiles unique to a region, Snob's mission is to bring gorgeous home décor into North American homes.
Other examples include the sale of provocative and culturally insensitive Halloween costumes, such
as headdresses.
Winnie [his then - wife] also wore a traditional
beaded headdress and an ankle - length Xhosa skirt.
My handmade
flower headdress was off Etsy which I was obsessed with for wedding stuff.
For this exhibition, Valdés has drawn upon nature, creating sculptures with inventive
headdresses which float and wrap around and above monumental female heads.
Irvin Morazan creates fantastical
sculptural headdresses that he wears during performances, photographs and videos.
New Orleans, LA (October 7, 2011)-- NOMA 100 is the culmination of a five - year acquisition project, celebrating the museum's 100th anniversary with the exhibition of 110 newly acquired objects, ranging from a laminated color C - print by American artist Matthew Barney to a seven - foot long
shark headdress from Nigeria.
Wild turkeys were eaten by native Americans and their feathers were also used for ceremonial purposes,
including headdresses and robes.
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Drawing from women's fashions from bygone eras — including Amish bonnets from her childhood adventures in Pennsylvania and her grandmother's circa - 1930s hat collection — artist Janice Jakielski has created a stunning collection of
handmade headdresses.
In the case of Thor and his treacherously twerpy brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston, invaluably snide as ever), they have little choice but to gape in awe at their sister's groundbreaking contributions to camp couture, complete with smoky goth eye shadow and a retractable
antlered headdress that Maleficent, Chernabog and deer poachers across the universe would envy.
The question of reasonable accommodation is a tiny bit simpler: is it discriminatory to deny government services to people wearing face - coverings, such as
Islamic headdresses?
The unpredictable pontiff even placed an
indigenous headdress on his head briefly during the encounter.
The scene is in a Breton field, and costumed Breton maidens in their
characteristic headdress surround the field in which the angel wrestles with Jacob as cows nearby graze in bucolic indifference.
Hair accessories definitely had a designer - upgrade moment at Paris Fashion Week, and although the Black Swan feathered
headdresses at Louis Vuitton were outrageous in the best possible way, our favorite looks were cleaner, simpler,...
An intricate sterling
silver headdress frames the face of a noble knight, hand - carved from bone by Balinese artisan Komang Suastra.
Among the exquisite objects that Gisèle Croës has selected for the exhibition are Longshan culture black pottery (3rd millennium BCE); a
crown headdress with glass ornaments from the Tang dynasty (618 — 907 CE); a gilt bronze mask from the Liao dynasty (916-1125 CE); and a carved wooden Bodhisattva figure (twelfth or thirteenth century CE).
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It depicts a figure wearing a
large headdress which derived its name Nim li Punit and is translated from the Maya Kekchi language as «the big hat.»
Among the cultural treasures is a feathered
headdress thought to have belonged to a Mexican priest more than 500 years ago.
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headdress sculpture with pedestal, 2015, mixed media including cotton, salt, glue and steel, 112 x 63 x 63 inches.
In it, the artist casts herself as subject, wearing what appears to be the type of ceremonial
headdress seen in religious paintings by Jan Van Eyck or Rogier Van der Weyden.
Though she has adopted utilitarian jeans and work boots in her studio, she always wears a large, intricately
wrapped headdress, which has links to her earliest wearable art and has become her fashion signature.
As we approached the terrifying line of flowing robes and
colourful headdresses, my eyes were drawn to their glinting Kalashnikovs.
Vika Gazinskaya's take on denim: She always dresses up the look with chic layering via a sweater or coat, her signature favorite Roger Vivier pumps and a
beautiful headdress.
Or maybe even Scott sitting next to Angelina Jolie, who'll be wearing a huge
Cleopatra headdress?
Whimsical headdresses, animals, food and other visual non sequiturs push the compositions into ambiguous territory, a realm suspended between lucid realism and dreamlike allegory.
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.