Lexicographical Neighbors of Headrings
Literary usage of Headrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"They wear headrings of red cedar- bark, and their hair is strewn with eagle down.
The men who are in the forest wear headrings and necklets of hemlock ..."
2. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"... she remains under the charge of her mother until such time as the design has
FIG. 131.—MAN WEARING WOMAN'S headrings As A MAGIC CURE FOR ..."
3. Basketry of the Papago and Pima by Mary Lois Kissell (1916)
"It provides mats upon which to sleep, to eat, and to dry grains, beans, peppers,
and other vegetables; headrings, for carrying the olla and the large basket ..."
4. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: With Notes on by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"... the chief gave orders that they should go aud fetch tendon (for sewing on new
headrings, etc.) from such-and-such a placo, it that they should go and ..."
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