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Updated: May 27, 2025
He wore a rich surcoat of feather-work, and a gorgeous plume of jewelled feathers floated from his helmet, while above this, and attached to his back between the shoulders, showed a golden net fastened to a short staff the customary symbol of authority for an Aztec commander.
Above all, are they famed for the "feather-work," or plume embroidery an art peculiarly Indian which, on their first becoming acquainted with it, astonished the rough soldiers of Cortez and Pizarro, as much as it delighted them. To this day is it practised among several of the South American tribes, notably those of the Gran Chaco, while the Tovas particularly excel in it.
Their bodies were protected by a vest of quilted cotton, impervious to light missiles, and over this the chiefs wore mantles of gorgeous feather-work, and the richer of them a kind of cuirass of gold or silver plates.
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