Términos

Blankets woven by Chilkat Tlingit communities, usually made of mountain goat wool and cedar bark. Blankets are usually comprised of black, white, yellow, and blue ovoid shapes. figures, and lines.

Regional or indigenous Latin American ceramic cooking pots that are hard-fired and strong.

Regional or indigenous Latin American handle-less ceramic containers of a certain type.

Members of a class containing up to 8,000 species of long, flattened, many-segmented predaceous arthropods, in which each segment except the hindmost bears one pair of legs for a total of 14 to 177 pairs, and having one pair of long, many-jointed antennae, and a pair of jawlike venomous claws just behind the head.

Ancient family of cartilaginous fish, abundant in the fossil record, with the sharks their closest living relatives; they branched off from sharks 400 million years ago.

Order of cartilaginous fish.

Language family comprising one endangered language and one extinct language, so far as is known; spoken in northwestern Washington state.

Round shields featuring various designs used in military action and ceremonies of Nahua peoples.

Nahua chimalli (shield) design of postclassic central Mexico featuring a tear-drop or paisley shape understood as a "toe" or "claw."

Estructura vertical incombustible que tiene humeros que permiten sacar al exterior el aire con productos de la combustión de, por ejemplo, hornillas, fogones y hornos.

Dispositivos tubulares de vidrio, metal o mica que se extienden hacia arriba desde el borde del quemador y concentran el aire caliente que sale de la llama, produciendo así un chorro.

Juegos de campana estacionarias sintonizadas, colgados al interior o exterior, estructuradas para sonar. Son menos extensas que los carillones, teniendo un rango limitado entre dos octavas. El término se utiliza siempre en plural. Para una sola campana, vea "címbalo".

The Zomi are a Tibeto-Burman speaking ethnic group numbering approximately 1.5 million people distributed across Myanmar (particularly Chin State in the western border region), northeast India (Manipur and Mizoram), Bangladesh, and diaspora communities in Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia. Historically inhabiting settlements in the Chin Hills of the Arakan Range at elevations above 1,000 meters, the Zomi have faced significant displacement, with the Chin National Front fighting the Burmese military government since 1988 and many seeking refuge in India. The vast majority of Zomi are Christian (predominantly Baptist Protestant), with Theravada Buddhist and animist minorities, and the name Zomi is sometimes applied broadly to include related groups such as the Mizos, Kukis, and Hmars.

Headwear comprising bands of cloth or another material tied around the top of the head and under the chin. Examples are women's headwear in Medieval Europe and men's headwear in ancient Persia.

Rests used to balance the chin, specifically when playing musical instruments, such as the violin or viola.

Ribbons or strings attached to hats in such a way that they may be tied under the chin, in order to secure the hat on the head.