The Importance of Wearing Quetzal Feathers

Around 40 years after the Aztec site of Totoacán was looted by the Spaniards, it appeared in an inventory at Ambrose Castle. The castle was a Habsburg resident of the ancestor of anthropologist Professor Khadija von Zinnenberg-Carol. With this family link, she decided to write a book tracing these threads. And now to where it was created and would have first been worn. This ancient city shared its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region and beyond.