Stephen, Doesn't it make you wonder...If the hood was found... where is the rest of the clothing? Why just a single piece of clothing? Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: [<orcadia>] Re: Orkney hood-reply to Fiona - no longer tinkering- now we are tailoring! > Fiona: > > I took a look at the hood on Sigurd's website. I can't believe the > depth of knowledge that man has amassed. Great descriptive piece. I > noticed that it is in a museum in Edinburgh. Seems it was made of wool, > which comes as no real surprise. So, that gets us down to the > shoulders. I guess a shirt type of garment could have been extended > from such a hood, like a hooded sweatshirt. As to legs and feet, that > is still a mystery to me. > > Your comment on subject title changes is duly noted. Thankou. > > Stephen > On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 08:19 AM, Fiona wrote: > > >>> 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. > > > >> Interesting. do you recall what kind of cloth it was? > > > > There's some information about the Orkney Hood in the archives of the > > Orcadian website: > > http://www.orcadian.co.uk/archive/2002/archive8.htm > > and > > http://www.orcadian.co.uk/features/articles/minehowe2.htm > > > > And also on Sigurd's Orkneyjar website: > > http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/orkneyhood.htm > > > > It was on show at the Orkney Museum for a while, along with the replica > > which was made. I'm not sure if the replica is still on show at the > > Museum, > > hopefully someone else will know this. > > > > > > Also - can I make a small plea? If people email the list on a different > > subject could they please change the subject heading of the email? > > Apart > > from making it easier for people who receive a lot of email to see > > what they > > want to read, it will also make it easier for anyone browsing the > > archives > > of the list for subjects of interest. > > > > Fiona > > Orkney > > > > > > ==== 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 > > >