[Regia-NA] Straw hats

[J K Siddorn]

Incidentally, Kim, there are different squirrel species on
> the two alternate rims of the Grand Canyon.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well, it's a bit of a trek I suppose, but I'm surprised that it's separated
them sufficiently that they have emerged into two separate species.


Regards,

Kim Siddorn

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me
than a free frontal lobotomy!


----- Original Message -----
From: "rmhowe" <MMagnusM@bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Straw hats


> VIKING@inthedanelaw.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
> > I would very much doubt straw hats...although I have irritiating
> > "back-of-the-mind" thought that I saw something familiar in a manuscript
> > picture at sometime.  We do have saga references to big floppy hats.
> > But I don't know of any physical evidence.  Anyone else?
>
> This is more than a bit odd but in the four big books I have
> in Russian on the Novgorod excavations there is a boater
> hat like from the 1920's - exactly the same shape - that
> is included in the illustrations. Unfortunately I don't
> read Russian and it's not in the English language summary
> book Thompson wrote on the four reports. It looked to me
> like it was woven from birch bark or root. Would have
> looked correct walking around an English or American college.
> Go figure.
>
> We have a russian immigrant pair that comes to most of the
> gem shows here and sell birch bark boxes that are quite
> wonderful. Some of it is carved and scraped, sewn together
> with bark thongs. Some of it is impressed. Usually there
> are laminations to form the things. For example the hinges
> go down between the birch bark walls and are also formed
> of bark. Some are semicircular, circular, or oval. Most
> have Romanesque designs on them, sometimes the phoenix
> or various animals. Not cheap but quite beautiful. I bought
> the wife a semicircular one she uses for a rings box that
> has russian squirrels on it. Her SCA device uses Russian
> Chipmunks (or had to so it would pass our heralds). They
> have jagged ears and look a lot like a stylized Red Squirrel.
>
> Incidentally, Kim, there are different squirrel species on
> the two alternate rims of the Grand Canyon.
>
> Now that you have American Grey Squirrels in England, to the
> detriment of the poor reds, you can share my battle over my
> fruit trees. Nothing short of shooting them seems to work.
> Scent repellents, noise repellents, huge rubber snakes in
> the trees, various other things....
> If I could pay the proper attention I'd have a hawk myself.
> After the passing of the last hurricane fringe they are
> probably desperately rebuilding their nests. The hawks
> tear them apart during the winters if the wind doesn't.
>
> In the NC mountains we have, or had, white ones, that were
> mutants in Brevard in the 60's-70's and I have heard of a
> few on the UNC Campus, and I think somewhere else. With the
> resurgence of the hawks here they've probably become lunch
> or bred out by now.
>
> Magnus
>
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >     Message date : Sep 30 2003, 10:36 PM
> >      From : Tracie Brown
> >     To : list-regia-na@lig.net
> >     Copy to :
> >     Subject : [Regia-NA] Straw hats
> >     I can get around without glasses, but I really miss
> >     sunglasses. I have straw hats that are correct for later
> >     periods, but I haven't found any styles earlier than these
> >     from the Maciejowski Bible, which is a bit late for Anglo-
> >     Saxon:
> >     http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf
> >     17/otm17va&bdetail7.gif
> >
> >     Anyone got some earlier hats?
> >
> >     Thanks.
> >
> >     -- Tracie
>
>
>
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