Hood with long point
- Made:
- 1880-1910
Hood with long point, made from cobwebs, used for smothering widows immediately husband dies, from New Hebrides, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A173615
- Materials:
- cloth, spiders web
- type:
- smothering hoods
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
