And the feather headdresses are symbolic of one particularly ... with the power of the tribal elders underpinned by a belief in their ability to lay curses on miscreants. As a result, they ...

Men wore eagle feather headdresses that bounced back and forth as they danced. Leading the procession was a man wielding a staff topped with an eagle head. Behind him among tribal elders was Kenneth ...

He was greeted as a guest of honour by bare-chested Walsa tribesmen with body paint, ornate headdresses and bands made of feathers ... family and tribal" and "to drive out fear, superstition ...

(National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian) For many Americans, the eagle feather headdress is a generic symbol of Native America indivisible from the narrative of the wild west and ...

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 ...

Men wore eagle feather headdresses that bounced back and forth as they danced. Leading the procession was a man wielding a ...