‘Feathers are held in the global imagination as synonymous with Indians’,[1] as researchers have noticed, yet this research project tests such wide-spread assumptions by examining the cultural role of feathers in general and feather-work in particular across the early modern globe. This blog entry aims to sketch the role of feather-work for early colonial Mexico, to be more precise, from the moment of the Spaniards’ arrival. In particular, I wish to address the colonial dimen