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  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Hair Wreath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Memorabilia, Hairwork Wreath
  • 1850c.
Hair Wreath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-3338
Type:
  • Document, Memorabilia, Hairwork Wreath
Date:
  • 1850c.
Description:
Locks of people's hair arranged in a semi-circle on paper and sealed in oval frame. Names on paper attached to pieces of hair; Isaac Somes, C.F. Somes, George A. Somes, [C.F.] Thompson, Isaac Thompson, Lyman Somes and Frederick Thompson. From the Isaac Somes house in Somesville.
Hair Wreath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Memorabilia, Hairwork Wreath
  • Other, Death
  • Other, Funerary Object
  • 1850c.
Hair Wreath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-2344
Type:
  • Document, Memorabilia, Hairwork Wreath
Subject:
  • Other, Death
  • Other, Funerary Object
Date:
  • 1850c.
Description:
Horseshoe shaped hair wreath a memorial to Bethany Oakes Salisbury (according to Thomas Vining's work "Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert Island Bethany E. Salisbury died 18 July 1886 aged 71 years, 8 months and 13 days and was the wife of Nathan Salisbury. The Oakes name may have been her maiden name and the "E." her maiden middle name initial), wife of Nathan Salisbury. Oval frame. Hair woven, tatted and braided in different colors. Small beads woven into design. [show more]