Butterfly coats
February 13, 2020 2:23 AM Subscribe
Was there ever a group of people who traditionally made coats or robes out of butterfly wings?
My girlfriend has a vague memory that there was an indigenous group of people who did this, but it's a hard topic to google for (too many hits for contemporary clothes that look like butterfly wings) and we couldn't turn up any references to it. It's possible that she's got it mixed up with Mesoamerican featherwork.
My girlfriend has a vague memory that there was an indigenous group of people who did this, but it's a hard topic to google for (too many hits for contemporary clothes that look like butterfly wings) and we couldn't turn up any references to it. It's possible that she's got it mixed up with Mesoamerican featherwork.
Best answer: The wikipedia entry for Morpho says “The people along the Rio Negro in Brazil once exploited the territorial habits of the blue morpho (M. menelaus) by luring them into clearings with bright blue decoys. The collected butterfly wings were used as embellishment for ceremonial masks.” (no citation given, though)
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