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Culture:American
Title:wigs
Date Made:ca. 1950
Type:Personal Equipment
Materials:textile: hair; netting; elastic; black silk
Place Made:United States; New York, Connecticut or Massachusetts
Accession Number:  HD 54.210.1
Credit Line:Gift of John Kenneth Byard
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Modern, blond wig in a vague 18th-century style. Worn by Henry N. Flynt in the 1950s at a birthday part for Katharine Prentis Murphy. Blond, bag wig. The hair is affixed to an under netting. Elastic band around the inside perimeter of the netting for shape.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Silk

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