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 >