The same applies to the Skara Brae stone carved artifacts which also are unique, and in Edinburgh. It is a National Museum so the Victorian logic is to collect the best subjects and leave replicas at the original location. The same thing applies with the British Museum. Whether this is correct is debatable, both intra-UK and of course has turned into a major debate Worldwide. Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Re: orkney hood-reply and querie > I cannot help but wonder, if this hood is perhaps "the single most > important artifact ever found in Orkney", why one visiting Orkney would > have to go all the way to Edinburgh to see it? > Is there not housing for such an artifact in Orkney? Such items are > often placed in an environmentally secure glass case in which case they > could be located anywhere secure it seems. Just a thought. I can't see > mucking about in Edinburgh to see this one item, but it certainly is a > very interesting piece of history isn't it? Thanks! > On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 12:38 AM, Simon Treasure wrote: > > > As previously stated info on the hood can be read at > > http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/orkneyhood.htm it is probably the > > single > > most important artifact ever found in Orkney and the extraordinary > > replica > > made by Jacqui Wood (of Ice Man fame, Neolithic Cooking Delia Smith, > > and one > > of the leading practical reconstructive archaeologists in the World) > > for the > > ArtDiscovery > > Minehowe event of 2002 is on permament display at Tankerness Museum. > > > > Simon > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tirabasso" <zorahh@sssnet.com> > > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:10 PM > > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > > > > > >> No, I wish I did. I thought it was amazing to think that it survived > >> all > >> those years, but then when you think the bog man was so well > >> mummified, > > then > >> it's not hard to understand how this piece of cloth might have > >> survived. > > It > >> looked like a medium weave of something like wool. It seemed quite > >> finely > >> done. > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > >> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:04 PM > >> Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > >> > >> > >>> Interesting. do you recall what kind of cloth it was? > >>> On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 03:31 AM, Tirabasso wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>> From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > >>>> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > >>>> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 12:05 PM > >>>> Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Just a brief note.... > >>>> > >>>> Parts snipped.... > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> I ran into a stone wall merely enquiring as to what my relatives in > >>>>> Orkney would have worn on their bodies in the way of clothing say a > >>>>> thousand years ago, considering the weather in the winter > >>>>> especially, > >>>>> and the dampness. > >>>> > >>>> Steve, one item of clothing I did see in the museum there in > >>>> Kirkwall > >>>> was a > >>>> cloth hood worn over the whole head witht the face cut out. Sort of > >>>> a > >>>> Balaclava looking item. It had been dug from the peat.. It was there > >>>> for a > >>>> short visit and was to return to another museum. > >>>> > >>>> Pat > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > >>>> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with > >>>> the > >>>> word > >>>> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > >>> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > > word > >>> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > >> word > >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >> > > > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > > word > > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >