{"id":1672,"date":"2021-09-22T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:35","slug":"marys-armadillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/artificialia\/marys-armadillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary&#8217;s Armadillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creature represented on this piece of silk embroidery by Mary Queen of Scots and labelled \u2018A TATOU\u2019 is a South American armadillo. The piece is one of 22 like it mounted on the <em>Cavendish Hanging<\/em> now kept at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England. Mary\u2019s source in the case of the armadillo had nothing to do with the Americas: French naturalist Pierre Belon. It was in the Turkish market in Constantinople that Belon saw an armadillo. He published several works on his travels and on natural history in the 1550s. In one of these, Belon calls the armadillo \u2018a little creature from Brazil, which is a kind of hedgehog,\u2019 apparently mistaking the bristles on its shell for spikes. The woodcut illustration contained in the final chapter of his account of his voyage to the Levant is, in fact, Mary\u2019s armadillo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creature represented on this piece of silk embroidery by Mary Queen of Scots and labelled \u2018A TATOU\u2019 is a South American armadillo. The piece is one of 22 like it mounted on the Cavendish Hanging now kept at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England. Mary\u2019s source in the case of the armadillo had nothing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificialia","tag-marys-armadillo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}