George Harrison
19th century French keepsake: Braided human hair, beads, ribbon, and a lithograph of the Christ child.
Likely a nun’s, made from her own hair, which is cut during the investiture ceremony when she takes the veil. The cutting of one’s hair represents the renunciation of the world and its vanities.
From my collection
Tina Turner at the Schaefer Music Festival in New York’s Central Park, 1970.
Photos by Walter Iooss Jr.
Theda Bara, one of the first great movie stars, in a 1919 photo by Frederick Walter Seely
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