Cotton Surinamese Creole headscarf

Printed Creole headscarf folded in the French manner and with Yampanesi motifs, on Javanese batik. \Angisa'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 printed, although the firs…