EditorialThe tall Tehuelche people of Patagonia exchanging gifts with short European colonist. The Native Americans wear feather headdresses and fur cloaks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All ...
EditorialOrnaments of the Native Americans of Virginia (Powhatan) worn in a dance: belts 1,2,3, girdle of Thevetia ahouai kernels 4, bead necklaces 5,6,7, feather headdresses 8,9, apron 10 and shirt 11. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's ...
EditorialFrench womens costumes of the 15th century. Poetess Christine de Pizan writing in her room A, women in hennin headdresses B,D, and woman in tall headdress hawking on horseback C. From miniature paintings. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costume...
EditorialChina / Africa: Tile tableau depicting several Chinese merchants and noblemen who appear to have made themselves at home in an African village, c. 1700
EditorialAgostina Mocibob, left, and Desiree López wear the coronal headdresses for the Danza de Los Quetzales during a Mexican Dance Company rehearsal for “Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo,” in New York, April 3, 2022. (Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times)
EditorialFlower fairies of buttercup, Ranunculus acris, and pitcher plant, Nepenthes species, wearing headdresses and dresses made of flowers. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Walter Crane from A Flower Wedding, Cassell, London, 1905.
EditorialMasks, hats and tools of the Aleut people. Hats, masks, feathers, headdresses, facial piercings, and spear and arrow. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy...
EditorialHats and bonnets of the early 16th century. Portrait of a young German woman in beret A, bust of a burgher woman in bonnet from an oil painting in the Nuremburg school B, and other hats, tricorns and headdresses of the era. Chromolithograph from Hefner...
EditorialGerman women's headdresses, 1510-1550. A tight embroidered cap with veil A, an original headdress with earholes for hair plaits B, and a conical hat (hellin) with veil introduced by Margeret of Burgundy C. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costu...
EditorialPanel, 18th century, Attributed to Algeria, Linen, silk; embroidered, 12.5 in. high 7.00 in. wide (31.75 cm high 17.78 cm wide), Textiles-Embroidered, Although Algeria had a centuries-long tradition of embroidery, it, like many other regions of the Ott...
EditorialTurbans and other headdresses of Egyptian men. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-186...