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Wearing Many Hats: Mourning and Grief in Pre-modern Finnish Burial Caps (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Finnish burial clothing between the 17th and 19th centuries exists in two forms: (1) re-purposed items used in life and reused as burial clothes, and (2) re-made items assembled from second-hand materials specifically for burial. While some items are consistently re-purposed or re-made, others - such as the caps considered here -...