Peacock made of tembleques

Tembleques – Pollera Head Dress

Panamanian Tembleques Even though everything in the pollera is beautiful, there is one part of it that typically catches the viewer attention first. We are referring to those sparklingly white moving elements placed on the “Empollerada” head.  These moving parts are called tembleques and got their name after their movement, the word tembleque comes from […]

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