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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Healy, 1977.Label
Wreath made from human hair braided and woven into floral and other natural shapes. In the 19th century, hairwork pieces such as this was a very popular handcraft and were produced as both mourning and commemorative objects. Some see hairwork as a particularly morbid phenomenon, but how many parents today save their child's baby teeth, or a lock from their first haircut? Perhaps the practice isn't so strange at all.
