It is unclear exactly how the headdress, made of hundreds of long quetzal feathers and more than 1,000 gold plaques, ended up in Austria, where it is on display at a museum in Vienna. Historians ...

And the feather headdresses are symbolic of one particularly important tradition, according to photographer Eric Lafforgue. 'The guys who wear feather headdresses have just been circumcised,' he ...

Both royal figures wear feather headdresses. The king’s headgear ... and the queen has red lines painted below her eyes. A kneeling male attendant applies red paint to the king’s backside ...