[Bonetools] hairpin usewear?

[Griffitts, Janet L - (griffitt)]

Hi Beth and Alice

I've been thinking about hairpins as well.  I do have several modern bone and one horn hairpins that I've been wearing off and on for the last decade or so (oh dear, I just started counting the years back--probably more like 15 years), but not enough to develop any noticeable wear.  Also, it's likely that I wash my hair more often than folks did in prehistory, at least in prehistoric Southern Arizona, and I tend not to apply bear grease or any other prehistoric hairdressing substances to keep it in place, any of which may influence the wear patterns.  So far the wear only looks more or less like hand wear.
But, I've been watching in antique and junk stores for old bone hairpins that might have been used by women who washed their hair less often and likely used them more frequently.
So, basically, I have nothing useful to add, except that I'm curious, too.

J

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Jan Griffitts
Visiting Scholar
Dept. of Anthropology,
Tucson,Arizona

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Subject: [Bonetools] hairpin usewear?

hi everyone,

I'm working on a collection of tools from a pithouse in New Mexico and looking at some things commonly identified as hairpins.  I don't have any comparative standards for usewear from use in human hair and I'd like to see whether that really is the best interpretation.  But it would be helpful to have an idea of whether there is anything distinctive about that kind of wear.  Does anyone else have any or suggestions on where to look?  (Maybe a new hairstyle is in my future!)

Thanks in advance!

Beth

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