Cotton headscarf with small flower motifs

Fairly recent (ca. 2000) headscarf folded in powtere (peacock tail binding). \Angisa's are starched cotton printed cloths, through which women in Suriname passed 'secret' (though known to all 'insiders') messages to each other through different 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 wi…