the Aztec headdress and how it is constructed a help for costume designers and prop masters on set #wildwest #aztec #shield #prophire #movieprop #western #cowboy #copili Impressum: www.history-pro...
My father's Mestizo family are from Mexico, and some of them are dancers out in Texas, their headgears are mostly made from flat feathers. he gave me a turkey tail recently from an old garage sale, and few years back six macaw feathers from his uncle, So i tried to make one to see how it's made. I tried to research our indigenous side, mostly from northern and middle Mexico (Chihuahua/Durango=Nueva Vizcaya), mountain scape people, some of them were also Nahuatl(Aztecs) so they probably traded feathers from southwestern and south of them Mesoamerican Indians, Turkey and Macaw were widespread there. so i cut the dyed colorful feathers in the shape of the mountains scape and three corn stalks, two turquoise, glued in the center of one of the flat turkey feathers, cut some tor look like flowers. there are archeological sites that conclude the more ancient indigenous farmed macaw around there, and Turquoise, Shell were traded through there, probably where the Aztecs got there turquoise from trading north of them with the Mountain Indians and They went north to the southwestern. i just find it interesting the universe gave me feathers over the years, my dad's not into the history or anything to do with our indigenous side, but it seems funny he goes somewhere and finds it, "I felt like picking this up, you might want it", common conversation we tend to have.
Oh that's so great! Even in collecting items come go you, and Not Vize versa. I had seen so many unreal things happen- it is fantastic that it is the same for other people too! Crow canyon has great videos about the southwest and Anasazi and turkey and macaw feather trade.
Thank you! I got it showed by some Aztec dancers. But over the years, so many Native people asked me, how to do this or that... And there are many, who live in towns far away from their comunities-.... I hope that more and more people find their way back to their heritage .... I am just the one to start an interest. ... But hey.. that's important ;)
Wonderful! I did a modern interpretation of Chalchuitlique for a costume contest a couple years ago; I spent hours researching Aztec clothing and headdresses. I constructed the headdress from EVA foam as a headband with a large disc at the back, and angled cheek-pieces. I used faux leather, gold fringe, textured scrapbook paper, and pheasant, macaw and dyed rooster feathers. It was a lot of fun to make, even if it's not historically accurate. Your video's given me a lot of ideas for future projects, though!
@@historyprops-english Amantecayotl, also, he makes plumarian art reconstructions. He reproduced a museum specimen of a chimalli shield with the image of a coyotl, a coyote.
