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Woman's headdress
Woman's headdress

Woman's headdress

mid-19th century
Place of ManufactureFrance
Place of UseBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueArtificial flowers, silk plain weave tape, silk net, paper, metalic threads and coils, wire, glass beads
DimensionsOverall: 17.78 x 30.48 x 7.62 cm (7 x 12 x 3 in.)
Credit LineGift in memory of Mrs. Horatio Appleton Lamb
Accession number51.363
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceInherited by Misses Aimee and Rosamund Lamb; Gift to the MFA, 1951
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Conservation status: Before treatment
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Group shot: 2010.1377.4-6
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