Model of a Surinamese Creole headscarf

A model of a headscarf from Suriname, folded into a 'car bumper'.‖ Through these headgear, women in Suriname transmitted 'secret' (though known to all 'insiders') messages to each other through various ways of folding, the pattern and possibly the name of the cloth. \Angisas are almost always machine printed, although the first angisas were often white with some embroidery (van Russel-Henar, 1988:…