Both royal figures wear feather headdresses. The king’s headgear ... one of vivid cultural practices and strict hierarchy, with rulers playing an essential role mediating between the gods ...

This find shows that, despite previous evidence proving rulers were men ... several layers of fabric, wore a headdress made of twisted threads to show her status, and was covered with a mantle of blue ...

And Montezuma, the emperor of the Aztecs, is seen through this same lens—a barbaric yet weak ruler who bowed at ... of no surprise that Montezuma's headdress would have been a part of his empire. Made ...

"At first the student noticed the teacher was pulling out a fake feather headdress and when she put it on he thought, 'what is she going to do?'" Brown then adds that the student who filmed the ...

Famous Peking Opera performer Liu Guijuan shows off a lavish kingfisher feather headdress on Sina Weibo. [Photo/ECNS] Famous Peking Opera performer Liu Guijuan shows off a lavish kingfisher ...

A stunning eagle feather headdress that once belonged to Chief Spotted Tail (Sinte Gleska), an influential 19th-century Brule/Sicangu Lakota leader, has been returned to the chief’s descendants ...

The feathered headdress has become a sensitive pop culture phenomenon, springing up in fashion shows, music videos and on the heads of partygoers from Coachella to Bonnaroo. But in a ...

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 ...