Folded cotton headscarf as part of a kotomisi costume

Because of the large size, this appears to be a practice model angisa.‖ Through these headgear, women in Suriname passed '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:…