Feather art
The term feather art different from are bird feathers produced art summarized: spring images or spring mosaics and feather headdress , known primarily from the Aztec culture in South America as well as the indigenous Indians North and South America.
Feather paintings / feather mosaics
Such works of art can be found e.g. B. from the Aztec culture of Mexico in the 16th century : there feathers were associated with gods such as Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcoatl ( Feathered Serpent ), they were afflicted with complex symbolism and far more valuable than gold for the indigenous people . The works of art were made by highly specialized craftsmen, so-called "Amanteca". After painted, stenciled and copied templates, multicolored feathers of different sizes were glued on in a certain layering; Signs, standards , capes and feather fans were decorated and decorated .
Quetzalcoatl in Codex Borbonicus
Aztec warriors ( Codex Mendoza )
Aztec feather shield "Meander and Sun" (around 1520, State Museum Württemberg )
Feather tunic , Peru (south coast), 8th-16th centuries, feathers / cotton, De Young Museum, San Francisco
Image of the Virgin Mary made of feathers, Juan Baptista Cuiris, Michoacán ( Pátzcuaro ), Mexico ( 1550 - 1580 ): Hummingbird and parrot feathers on paper / wood, " Spiritual Treasury ", Hofburg , Vienna
Image of Christ made of feathers, as above
Feather headdress
A well-known feather headdress is z. B. that of the Indians of North and South America, which is associated with certain meanings or worn as a badge of rank on or on the head or anywhere else on the body (" chief "). From more recent times and Europe ( Art Nouveau , " Art Deco ") are z. B. Fan or the so-called feather "Boa" (after the snake ) known.
Aztec feather headdress ( reproduction ), attributed to Moctezuma II ,
Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia , MexicoStatue of the mythical figure "Tolita" in a feather costume, around the year 0, from Esmeraldas (Ecuador) ,
today in the Israel Museum , JerusalemPre-Columbian feather coat,
17th century ,
Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH), Brussels“ Mató Tópe ,
Chief of the Mandan ”,
watercolor on paper,
Karl Bodmer , on his journey through the USA 1832–34Ostrich feather fan , Art Deco, 1920s
Southern Sierra Miwok Flicker Quill Headband by Chris Brown ( Chief Lemme ), a North American Indian dancer, circa 1930, Yosemite Museum
literature
- Claudia Cattaneo (Ed.): Colorful and endangered. Feather headdress from Amazonia . Pestalozzianum-Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-909105-21-1 (also exhibition catalog, Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich ).
Web links
source
- ↑ badische-zeitung.de , March 12, 2015, Andreas Volz: Far more valuable than gold