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Ancient MesoAmerica News Updates 2011, No. 6: Mexico DF - INAH Hopes Moctezuma's Feather Headdress Returns Before the End of the Year
The famous Moctezuma II feather headdress was the subject of AMaNU 2011, No. 4 and was also mentioned in the La Jornada interview with Matos Moctezuma ( AMaNU 2011, No. 5). The headdress ('penacho') is the subject of a short note at the website of the daily Mexican newspaper El Universal , posted today, Sunday, January 30, 2011, in which the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) expresses the hope that it will be returned to Mexico before the end of the year (Edited bu amanu):

loan expected to close in 2011 Plume - The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) is feasible for the emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin Plume (1466-1520) one of the main symbols of pre-Columbian history, considered by far the most important relic of Mexico, return to this country before the end of the year.
Alfonso de Maria y Campos, head of the Institute, said this and noted that the crown of the Aztec empire, now guarded by the Museum of Ethnology Vienna, Austria, is undergoing work restoration by a group of archaeologists and restorers Mexicans very high reputation.
'is now a Mexican delegation there, I've been several times. We have been working through negotiations Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and an academic and scientific work made by Mexican archaeologists and restorers.
'There is no secret, is something that takes time and must be convinced, "because like any other loan, there are guarantees to preserve the first to transport and then return," he said.
According to the doctor also in History from the University of Cambridge, England, transfer piece, made with quetzal feathers set in gold and precious stones, is a work of many years we have been involved two important institutions: the INAH and the SRE. "
In recent weeks, authorities have Austrian museum first opened the possibility of the plume, temporarily returned to Mexico to be exposed.
In contrast to temporary, Austria during the time get a piece of the loan and the golden coach Aztec Maximilian I, shot in Mexico, brother of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Plume, classified within the museum's collection as "Treasures of Ancient Mexico ' is a work of the Mexica amantecas specialists and artists in the creation of objects with feathers.
has a height of 116 cm and a diameter of 175. The center of the plume is made from bird feathers xiuh totol blue and gold ingots in the form of crescents, with precious stones. Follow
area tlauquechol pink feathers and a brown feathers of the cuckoo, from which comes a row of green quetzal feathers, some up to 55 centimeters long.
In total has more than 400 quetzal feathers. Although it is currently very poor condition, its value estimated by the Austrian government is 50 million dollars. (Source El Universal) The Same newspaper

Also posted, on the Same Day, short note in the Following Which UNAM researcher Patrick Johansson Keraudren Provides Some detail on the origin and function of the headdress (edited by amanu):
Montezuma Plume, cultural banner - After announcement of the negotiations for Austria to give Mexico the Montezuma Plume, a specialist from the UNAM highlighted the value of the piece as a cultural standard. Patrick Johansson
Keraudren, a researcher at the Institute of Historical Research (NI) believes that academics have a unique opportunity to reach all Mexicans a much more accurate knowledge of something that we talk a lot.
In a newsletter National Autonomous University of Mexico are some details of what is being propagated by the specialist. "This piece, which left the country in the sixteenth century, have been so it actually has little to say on feather art specialists or clothing, but if we use in our favor the media noise generated by your arrival, you We will take advantage of the true value of the headdress, or quetzalapanecáyotl, which is not the object itself, but whose memory trigger, "he added. Keraudren Johansson also warned on groundless beliefs that have been generated over the pieces.
"If anything we have demonstrated the evidence, is that the plume came lawfully in the territory as a gift from the authorities of New Spain to the English crown, "he said. He also criticized the claims" angry "against Austria who have used some politicians." To avoid this, we see the plume as a standard but cultural, never partisan, "he explained.
Moreover, the debate about whether the plume actually belonged to Moctezuma, said" there are things that we can never know about this subject, as if it really ever behaved this ruler Aztec, but what we are definitely certain is that once belonged to a priest of Quetzalcoatl, we have much evidence of that. "
was such a controversy that the Vienna Museum of Ethnology decided to put his side a plate with the legend Altmexikanischer Federkopfschmuck (former Mexican headdress of feathers for the head) to replace the old Kopfschmuck Montezumas. (Source El Universal )