Kayapo-Mekrãgnoti people of the Amazon forest Rio Xingu, Rio Iriri, Para, in the so called Brazil.

The colors of the feathers on the headdresses were chosen according to the lineage of the families / clans.

In Kayapo spirituality and cosmology, the universe is rounded in form. For that reason, the villages and fields are organized in a circular plan and considered to be miniature representations of the universe. The round or oval shape of the feather headdresses are a symbolic reminiscence of this science as well.

The Kayapo origin story says, the first humans came down from the sky by clinging to a long cotton rope. That is the reason why Kayapos used cotton strings around the feathers on their headdresses.