INTRODUCTION TO SONGKOK
The songkok or peci or kopiah is a cap widely worn in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand, mostly among Muslim males and Royal Families in the Asia. It has the shape of a truncated cone, It can be any size for its height , there are the normal size and in some places it has a taller one. usually made of black or embroidered felt, cotton or velvet. It is worn by males in formal situations such as wedding feasts, Religious occasions or festive occasions such as the Muslim Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Rarely used by females . Songkok came to be associated with Islam
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It shows modesty, simple. By just observing the look and its style, we can know that it is for something special or something busy It is suitable for men to were especially during special occasions , important event , wedding (for malay people). And prayer for the muslims. It is oval shaped cardboard covered with velvet cloth. The base inside is made of old newspaper , georgette fabric and also manilla card. There are many types of songkok produced nowadays. Because the demand are getting higher and people are demanding for different type of songkok snd the styles of the songkok of course. It is also not unusual to see modifications made to the Songkok. Customers sometimes choose to decorate their Songkok by adding accessories such as gold ornaments, sewing them onto the headgear. Men who have performed the pilgrimage to Mecca usually wear the white Songkok, also known as the Songkok Haji. According to the fifth pillar of Islam, every able Muslim should endeavor to make a pilgrimage (haj) to the Holy Land of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Other characteristic is that Songkok shows the pride of the user. Man who uses Songkok to go to special event or meeting must feel much more confidence when wearing
Hmong textiles are designed with a variety of geometric shapes and patterns. Shapes are regularly added to their dresses, headdresses, and flower cloths. During the Hmong New Year, men and women wear a traditional dress with a turban wrap or a rooster hat. The dress has a very conservative style; covering majority of the body of the man or woman. It is designed by adding embroideries and appliqués. The headdress is also a main part of the dress. Turban wrap is used as a rounded covering for the head, conversely the rooster hat is highly decorated and resembling the comb of a rooster. The flower cloth, or the Hmong word "Paj Ntaub", has been in the Hmong history for over two centuries. Flower cloths are embroideries contain mainly geometric designs and bright yarns. Hmong textiles are often embellished with bright yarns and are usually know as "story cloths." They were weaved to narrate different series of events: the villa...
As you can see in the Killers’ version it has straight for music structure from the table above. If we compare this with Paul Anka’s rendition of Mr. Brightside, he does sing all the verses in the same order, and leaves out some words, but on the second time he only sings the second verse. So already, it is clear that Anka is making this his own song. To get a better understanding about where these changes occur, see the list order below:
In the Moorish Science Temple of America. The Turban is predominantly worn by Women. According to text, “To the Moslems of the west, it represents purity and is consider a crown. It is truly a symbol of Modesty and respect for self” . Additionally, turban patterns or cloth determined social status. Men weren’t allowed to shave their beards and had to wear red fezzes. According to the MST website, “The Fez represents a Pyramid without a capstone; it is a storehouse of knowledge . The Fez is the extension of a man who knows himself thus making a man complete. The Fez is the National Headdress of the Asiatic Moorish Nation of North, South and Central Americas, including the adjoin Islands. It’s literary symbolic of power, authority, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. When one views the Fez from the inside, one sees circles of 360 degrees. This is the unseen. Viewing it from the outside, one sees only 2 circles. This is the seen. The unseen is the spiritual side that rules the physical, the seen is the manifested . Each cord represents the laws of Allah that man has to live by and in some cases the battles that he has
The Niitsitapi (also called Blackfoot Indians), reside in the Great Plains of Montana as well as Alberta and Saskatchewan located in Canada. Only one of the Niitsitapi tribes are named Siksika, also known as Blackfoot.
The women and girls of this culture and religion will never have cut their hair, but wear it back in a bun. They wear plain fabric dresses reaching floor length, and wear a prayer in their hair indicating- white if married, black if single and no jewelry. As for the males and boys, dark colored suits, brim straw hats, long coats. They do not have mustaches and will grow beards after marriage.
In Pashtoon culture, sheenkhaal is blue permanent beauty mark in the form of dots. That are generally tattooed between the eyebrows, above the eyborws, on the chin and on the cheeks of the young Pashtun women and girls. This custom is at first applied as a way to protect ones-self from the evil eye. It used to be very common for Pashtun women to have sheenkhaals but nowadays it is only seen on old and very old women or the nomads or Kochi women. In Pashtoon families sheenkhaal is still seen as very beautiful nowadays when sometimes girls and young ladies make temporary sheenkhaals on their faces and cheek on special occasion.
The Central African tribe of the Punu have created hundreds of masks over time, but there is one type of mask that is more celebrated. According to the University of Virginia's Faces of the Spirits, these masks are called the Okuyi or Mukudj masks. A generally wooden mask, colored either white, black, or red, these masks are a work of art. They even appeal to many museum collectors. These wooden masks are significant to that culture because they are used in rituals, music and celebrate this culture’s pride in their women.
Slowly the men make their way up the hill with Obierika in the lead. Leaves crunch as feet uniformly step onto the ground. The commissioner and his soldiers are warily eyeing their surroundings. Each man snuggles close to Okonkwo’s compound wall, hoping not to be seen. They go past a small bush. It is next to a red hole in the wall where small animals enter and exit the compound. Finally, the men all stop. They spot the body dangling from a tree. They stand upright in shock. The carcass of Okonkwo steadily swings in the breeze. As each man looks upon it disbelievingly, Obierika says to the commissioner heatedly, “That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself, and now he will be buried like a dog…” (page 207). In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main character of Okonkwo displays many different aspects of his personality that lead to this moment. Even though Okonkwo is in a society that forbids suicide, for many reasons he chooses to end his life this way. Thus, Okonkwo becomes a tragic hero, and at the end of the book, he takes his own life to end his pain.
Clothing is perhaps the simplest form of expression used by people to differentiate themselves from other members of society at both the collective and individual level. Clothing has the ability to simultaneously delineate an individual’s identifying attributes such as gender, profession, religion and ethnicity. Likewise, religious symbols entail wearing particular garments, amongst many other articles, and individuals choosing to wear it to overtly demarcate their religion and faith. Many traditions have distinctive religious symbols, such as Sikhs wearing the turban and Catholic nuns wearing the black veil. In Islam, there are several religious symbols such as the hijab, the burqa and the niqab intended to be worn by Muslim women. In recent
Costumes worn by Bhangra dancers were bright blue for the guys and hot pink for the girls. Guys had on a headpiece that looked like a fan. A scarf was draped over the girls’ hair. The Doundoumba costumes for the men were minimal, as they had no shirts on. They wore what looked like a small float around their upper arm. Costumes for both Bhangra and Doundoumba were flowy. Chinese Fan dancers had on a tight blouse with loose pants. Their outfit was white and blue in color. Bhangra and Doundoumba dancers performed barefoot, while Chinese Fan dancers wore socks. The s...
... for the dead (Carnival 9). These ceremonies were called masked balls. Masks also are worn by the moko jumbies to hide their familiar faces. Moko jumbies originated as West African shamans. They are tall guardians that protect people from the evil jumbie spirits. During carnival they can be seen covered from head to toe and walking on stilts. Today the costumes are made of almost anything as long as the colors are bright and wild. Many of the costumes at carnival are enormous and need the right construction so they are light enough for the dancers to move around in.
Italo Calvino was an Italian author who wrote a wide variety of stories, such as The Nonexistent Knight and many more. He was a master of postmodern literature which can be seen throughout all his stories, including The Nonexistent Knight. This novella follows Agilulf, a “perfect” yet nonexistent knight, and his acquaintances on quests to seek out their true identity and reveals to us that “where other people exist genuine individuality is never possible.” Through Calvino’s perspective, the perfect individual cannot exist in a world where there is greed, gluttony, lust, and other inimical qualities around him, which ultimately led Agilulf to his doom. Characters in the story cannot achieve that “perfect individuality” that everyone desires, simply because perfection is unattainable, which is depicted through Calvino’s use of satire and postmodern elements. In The Nonexistent Knight, Italo Calvino creates a parodic satire on medieval romances where genuine individuality is not possible, making us question the verisimilitude of the characters in the story through the use of different types of satire, character development, and postmodern themes.
For maintaining their social status, so the people typically wore clothes that followed the class system, that is, if a person was rich, they showed it by wearing fancier clothes and jewelry. Chiefs, the highest ranking individuals, wore a chilkat blanket, dance apron, leggings, and moccasins.
To the great extend ethical judgements limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. But in my opinion such a limitations are essential, while people need to be to some extend controlled. The boundaries are needed because giving to people to much freedom and power is very dangerous. The only one problem in case of ethical judgements is that the perception about something wrong or right differs among the people. I think that this comes from the inside, generally there are some “informal laws” how to behave, what is good and bad, but this is a personal matter of every single person which ones from that “laws” he or she accept and reject. The morality is determined by culture and experiences and differs among people. If there would not be something like moral code the production of knowledge in art the same as in natural science would not have any limitations. Using examples from art and biology I will try to show how ethical judgements limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences, but also I will try to explain my statement that such a limitations are necessary.
Since kabuki actors sometimes have to portray a female, dress and cosmetics play an important role in the performances. Costumes used are elaborate, detailed, and show the traditional dress of historical Japan. The primary form of cosmetics is called kumadori. The Asia Society's 1988 Video Letter: Noh and Kabuki translates kumadori as "making shadows" (1).