And the feather headdresses are symbolic of one particularly important tradition, according to photographer Eric Lafforgue. 'The guys who wear feather headdresses have just been circumcised,' he ...

A lavish red and white ostrich feather headdress, designed to make its 16th Century wearer stand out from the crowd, has been recreated. The original 1m (3ft 2in)-wide bonnet was made in 1521 for ...

It is unclear exactly how the headdress, made of hundreds of long quetzal feathers and more than 1,000 gold plaques, ended up in Austria, where it is on display at a museum in Vienna. Historians ...

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In precolonial Philippines, the fascination and reverence for heights that birds could reach inspired the use of their feathers for a correspondingly elevated status, adorning the headdresses of ...