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Feather Dance
This
dance performed in Oaxaca, is thought to represent
Macuilxochitl, the god of music, song, dance and courtly
nobility. The dancer wears an enormous mirror-trimmed and
plumed headdress. In the left hand he holds a heart-shaped
scepter, in the right a rattle that punctuates the rhythm of
the dance. He wears a bright-colored cape, silk-banded,
gold-fringed pants, an apron covered with silver medals and
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Feather Dance
Luis Covarrubias
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