Ova Herero women, c. 1940, on the border between Bechuanaland and South West Africa (photo from the Royal Geographical Society).
From the Lewis Walpole Library Collection of prints on hair & wigs and the hairdressers & barbers who created and tended them:
Miss Prattle, consulting Dr. Double Fee about her Pantheon Head Dress
London: Printed for Carington Bowles, February 8, 1772, hand-colored mezzotint
15th century women, France
North American First Nations, California
Two Ugandan men, 1902
Baroque headdresses worn by Paul Richter and Margarete Schon in Fritz Lang's 5-hour silent film saga Siegfried's Tod, made in 1924 and based on an early 13th c Norse epic poem.
The Headdress Ball
a charity event held by Las Floristas every May at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California
1. Lillian Molieri as The Princess of Scheherazade, May 2nd 1952
2. Mrs. Theodore Bentley wearing Freeway - U.S.A., May 5, 1962
3. The Grand March - A Salute to the Seven Lively Arts, May 1, 1965
(images from the L.A. public Library archives)
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