it’s just a stupid feathered headdress, right
May 19, 2012 Full size is 364 × 400 pixels
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âpihtawikosisân is Métis from the Plains Cree speaking community of Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta. She currently lives in Montreal, Quebec. Her passions are: education, Aboriginal law, the Cree language, and roller derby. She holds a BEd, an LLB and teaches indigenous youth.
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A headdress of feathers symbolizing the concept stupidity first appeared circa 1300, hence long before American indians were known to extist. Among the allegorical figures in the Scrovegni Chapel the figure signifying stupidity appears in prominent feathered headress and a garment alluding to feathers.