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ID: 300417971
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300417971

 

Record Type: concept
epnepaniuhqui (vestments (general ceremonial costume), ceremonial costume, ... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Aztec vestments comprising articulated pieces of iridescent shell sewn in a pattern on a textile support. Derived from Nahuatl for "joined mother -of-pearl." Many examples are made from the Pacific mollusk Pinctada mazatlanica.
 
Terms:
epnepaniuhqui (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,L,B)
shell vestments (Aztec garments) (C,U,English,UF,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.TE

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
.... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Costume (hierarchy name)
........ Costume (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of costume (mode of fashion)
............ costume (mode of fashion) (G)
Hierarchy of <costume by function>
................ <costume by function> (G)
Hierarchy of ceremonial costume
.................... ceremonial costume (G)
Hierarchy of vestments (general ceremonial costume)
........................ vestments (general ceremonial costume) (G)
Hierarchy of epnepaniuhqui
............................ epnepaniuhqui (G)

Related concepts:
derived/made from ....  Pinctada mazatlanica (species)
................................  (Pinctada (genus), Pteriidae (family), ... Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) [300419336]

Sources and Contributors:
epnepaniuhqui............  [VP Preferred]
..........................  León-Portilla, The Aztec Image of Self and Society (1992)
..........................  Luján, and Ruvalcaba Sil, Mexica Gold, in Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas [n.d.]
..........................  Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
..........................  Pillsbury, Potts, Richter, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (2017) 262
shell vestments (Aztec garments)............  [VP]
.....................................................  Pillsbury, Potts, Richter, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (2017) 262
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Golden Kingdoms [exhibition] [2017] 262
.......... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

 

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