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- Title:
- Lefty Fist Power 1521
- Description:
- On March 29 of that year, Pigafetta dined with a Visayan king. With every mouthful of cooked pork, one had to drink wine. The king showed the custom: raise clasped hands toward the sky, then toward one’s drinking companion; take the filled cup in the right hand; extend the fist of the left hand to the companion as if to strike him; then drink. Everyone made the customary signs to one another when drinking. They were considered a ceremony of friendship. What did the clenched fist mean then? The power fist, although used since the 19th century by liberation groups, became popular only after 1948 when Taller de Grafica Popular, a printing shop in Mexico, advanced it as an artistic revolutionary symbol.
- Subjects:
- Visayan King Pigafetta Ceremony
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Source:
- Power Fist by Keith Tyler
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Lefty Fist Power 1521", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll018.html