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Printed cotton headscarf for Creole woman
Headscarf for church: kerki angisa, with the name "We pray for mercy and peace," issued by the Hernhutters Church.‖ Angisas like this are almost always machine-printed. So-called "cloth men" ask older women for fragments of old headscarves. From these fragments, designs are made in Suriname or Japan in different colour schemes, from which the Surinamese trader can place his order. \The angisa belo…
Type of item
- Object Type: headcloth (headgear)
- Headcloth
- headcloth (headgear)
Date
- voor 1963
Medium
- Material: cotton
- Cotton
- cotton (fiber)
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
- 1963-01-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- Hoofddoek
Format
- Technique: print
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- orange
- wax
- amber (fossil resin)
- hair (material)
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z