Costume and jewels of the Àguiles (Pollença)

What is

Crown and cape of the two Eagles of the Corpus Christi of Pollença, covered with ancient jewels lent by the town's families and by the Obreria de la Mare de Déu del Puig.

How is

• Crown and cape as jewelry support.
• Jewelry: old pieces from Pollencine families and the Virgen del Puig.
• Castanets in the hands castanyetes .
• Detail of fabrics and colors: to verify.

How is fa

• Every year the jewels are sewn or pinned on the crown and cape.
• Marking: each piece has colored threads; one combination per family, to return them without confusion or loss.

Com s'usa

• The Eagles are chosen by lottery a week after Easter, one year before. They dance after Sant Joan Pelós on Corpus Christi and the following Sunday Corpus de Pollença .

Vocabulary

• Àguila: dancer of the Corpus Christi of Pollença.
• joies: jewels.
• obreria: board that guards the property of the Virgin.

History

• Pollença is the only municipality in Mallorca that preserves the ball de les Àguiles; Sant Joan and Felanitx had it (disclosure source).

On veure'n

• Corpus Christi of Pollença (May-June).

Why is it design

• Dress-archive: gathers once a year the scattered jewelry of a town.
• Textile traceability: the thread code is a paperless inventory system.

For the project

• Photograph the thread system with permission from the Obreria; link to jewelry and buttons .

Sources

• seemallorca.com/events/corpus-christi-pollensa-(pollenca)-685134
• ultimahora.es/noticias/local/2008/05/04/436987/tesoro-incalculable.html

Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.

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