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Model of a Surinamese Creole headscarf
Model of a headscarf, folded in a tail and intended for market women, with motifs inspired by batik patterns (kawung).\nAngisa's are starched cotton printed cloths.Through these headgear, women in Suriname passed 'secret' (though known to all 'insiders') messages to each other through various ways of folding, the pattern and possibly the name of the cloth. \Angisas are almost always machine printe…
Type of item
- Object Type: headcloth (headgear)
- headcloth (headgear)
- Headcloth
Date
- voor 1963
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1963
Provenance
- 1963-09-26
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/103347
Format
- Technique: print
- textile printing
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- white
- orange
- hair (material)
- ambergris
- wax
- embroidering
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z