Headrest
Cleveland Museum of Art

Headrest

1800s–1900s

Wood
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Headrests served to protect the elaborate coiffures highly fashionable until the early to mid-20th century and also enhanced contact with the ancestral realm through dreams.

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