When Aztecs Made Catholic Icons Out Of Feathers

“Following their takeover, the Spanish encouraged amantecas, or feather artists, to continue their work … Crafted carefully with glue from orchid bulbs, feather art remained very much connected to precolonial history, even as the indigenous art was forcibly altered into a new fusion between the Old World and the New.”

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