Female headdresses mb-code IOM_MNH_1954_2501_004 leader of the Indian independence

leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India

is shown playing cards with Russia (right) and Luxembourg (left)

18th September 1975

Plate 58 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

Also showing a man

Female headdresses mb-code IOM_MNH_1954_2501_004 leader of the Indian independenceFemale headdresses, 15th century, (1910). The frontlet was composed of a piece of rigid wire netting covered with black material which passed over the head and allowed a small loop to appear on the forehead this was designed to ease the strain on the hair caused by wearing the steeple headdress at an angle 45 degrees from the perpendicular. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).