The Fight to Bring Home the Headdress of an Aztec Emperor

Atlas Obscura ^ | SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 | JACOB MIKANOWSKI

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Fascinating.

[Darteaus94025]

Thanks for the headless chumps; it will look great in our European museum.

[DesertRhino]

Meh,, the Spanish arriving in Aztec areas is like the allies armies rolling into Nazi death camps. Thank god that society was crushed and stopped.
The conquistadors were heroes in my book.

As for the headdress, no things like that should be repatriated to third world nations. We saw the museums in Iraq utterly looted. A complete Islamic based horrific looting and destruction of antiquities occurred at the fantastic museum in Egypt. The destruction of treasures in Syria was unparalleled.
Mexico is one of the most kleptocratic and violent societies on earth. I think it still leads the world in outright homicide.

Send back that headdress and it will be in some cartel leaders house in a few years like Simon Bolivars sword was.
Treasures like that belong in adult hands, not the turd world until maybe they mature someday.

If that’s even possible.

[shibumi]

Feathered Serpent Ping!

[txnativegop]

Intriguing.

[DesertRhino]

” Hochstetter and Nuttall were both convinced that it came straight from Moctezuma as part of a group of “presents” given to Cortés via intermediaries shortly after the conquistador arrived in the Central Mexican port of Veracruz. “

So what are they, some kinda indian givers?

[piasa]

Mexico is one of the most kleptocratic and violent societies on earth

No more so than Spain... which plundered and melted down nearly everything they got their hands on, then they blew it all waging war.

[nickcarraway]

Mexico isn’t a third world nation. It’s in the top 15 richest nations on the planet.

[BenLurkin]

Perfect

[Salamander]

Now, if they could only find Quetzl’s coatl.

[Daffynition]

Hey! Close the window. It's drafty in here!

You are a sick, sick man.

[Chainmail]

Wow!

[JoeProBono]

[shibumi]

In as much as the extravagant covert plumage is
only displayed by the male peafoul (i.e. peacock)
would it then follow that the person in your photo
at #15 is an example of trans-species-gender-fluidity?

And if this is in fact the case, how much will
the GubMint grant me to study it? (I will need
to acquire a full library of Carmen Miranda film
clips along with the appropriate Bugs Bunny shorts.)

[GreyFriar]

An interesting reason for not sending it back:

“A study commissioned by the Austrian government claimed that a safe return would be impossible without a specially designed case to protect it from the vibrations caused by flight. According to the study, it would require a plane 984 feet long—the length of 2.7 football fields—and 164 feet high to buffer the vibrations caused by take-off and landing. Since no such plane exists the repatriation seems unlikely in the short term.”

My question to the Austrian government: Why not sent it back by a ship?”

[Reily]

Montezuma has surviving direct descendants in the Spanish nobility. The current direct descendant of Christopher Columbus is one. (How’s that for the intertwining of fate!)
Maybe it should be long to them?

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]