[Bonetools] hairpin usewear?

[Alice Choyke]

And Maria Biro and others have pointed out that some of needles which could
also be clothing pins could have been used to make lace or in naal-binding
work. We need a young and very energentic colleague who is willing to face
the seemingly infinite number of Roman pins to get to the bottom of what
they were actually used for. Someone with lots of patience and fortitude.

Alice

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Etan Ayalon <etana at eretzmuseum.org.il>wrote:

>  Dear all list members
> I don't have enough hair left to try hair pins. But more seriusly, taking
> this question back to the old world and to the many Roman bone pins found
> everywhere, the debate was always whether these were hair or cloth pins.
> This makes the situation worse, as how can we distinguish between wear
> caused by hair and that caused by cloth fibers? As for Mme Biro's and
> others' idea that at least some of those objects were kohl sticks, indeed
> we identified here at Caesarea, Israel, Roman "pins" with remains of some
> material (close to ochre in color) which we tried to identify at the
> Weizmann Institute, but failed
> So - more work but new ideas and questions are always good
> Etan Ayalon
>
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>  *מאת:* bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu בשם Elisabeth Ann Stone
> *נשלח:* ד 23/05/2012 19:02
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> ofobject and waste of bone,antler. ivory and horn.
> *נושא:* [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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> University of New Mexico
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