I've not seen any contemporary explanation of this. My opinion is that the bonnet is there as a reminder of roots or origins. I have seen it in photos of women who were not ministers. Tom Hamm >Recently I've seen a couple of photographs of Quaker women, both individual >and in pairs, or in one case a group of four, where there is Quaker bonnet >placed on a table beside them. Does this have any significance? Perhaps that >they have traveled as ministers? > >Thanks in advance, >Gregory McReynolds >Pasadena, California > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl