The dancers wore ceremonial headdresses.
most of the acrobats riding the horses and elephants wore some sort of fancy headdress
Recent Examples on the WebThe cover depicts a blond, fair-skinned man holding up a mask with the face of a Yanomami man in a feather headdress.—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024 Her tomb contained magnificent pieces including a headdress of gold leaves, necklaces, chokers, earrings, and ten rings, amongst many more examples crafted from precious metals and stones.—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024 Another showed her in a white headdress, tossing flower petals with an Afro-Brazilian society at a local street festival.—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 The process of choosing pieces, many featuring numerous elements — masks, clothing, drawings, headdresses, books, props — from so enduring and varied a career was a yearslong endeavor for the museum, a puzzle that needed solving by both Jonas and the show’s curator alike.—Susan Dominus Emiliano Granado, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 In costuming her, West used medieval references, particularly in her headdress.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024 In the 1960s, a man wearing a headdress rode the horse.—Noreen Nasir, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024 The kaffiyeh is a traditional Arab headdress that has come to symbolize solidarity with the Palestinian cause.—Leo Sands, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024 On a screen, images of Jonas in the garb of a belly dancer or wearing a headdress or various other costumes appear on a monitor fleetingly, seemingly trapped in squares that keep rolling downward, as if demanding those watching to be conscious of the effort of perception.—Susan Dominus Emiliano Granado, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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