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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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5 Heads with Hats

Object/Artifact

Black base, white drapery trailing in back, bird wings. Black Dolly Varden hat with white plume coiled around the low crown. Black flat bow with small flowers under and over it, and black spotted net draped to the front, secured with a red brooch. Red and gray sculptural form with white curled plume. White 'plate' with blue edge and blue plume coiled around low dark blue crown with bird wing and flowers in back.

2022.35.0404

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Jounal Des Demoiselles, Plate No. 4016

1872 - 1875

Old Number

2006.152.7

Paper

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