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Human hair.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any hair of humans (Homo sapiens), particularly the hair grown from the scalp of humans. Human hair is a cylindrical tube composed mostly of keratin. The shaft is covered with thin, flat scales and the central core often contains pigments of red, black, or brown. Commercially, human hair has often been used for wigmaking and brushmaking.

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland as a Captain of the 93rd Regiment, in India., 1855, 1858.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2234
Scope and Contents The diary, recorded in "De La Rue’s improved Indelible Diary and Memorandum Book, 1855", describes the March through Fatehgarh, Cawnpore, and Unao to Lucknow, with the capture of the Martinière and the Begum's Palace in Lucknow.The diary is held in a leather travel writing set in the form of a wallet, produced by Thomas De La Rue and Co., London, which contains: a blotting pad, an ink bottle, a pen, pen-nib box and 2 spare pen-nibs, read sealing wax, 6 unused envelopes, an ivory...
Dates: 1855, 1858.

Further papers of the Douglas of Cavers family.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13845
Content Description

Annotated envelopes containing hair of members of the Douglas and Malcolm families and book plates of William Elphinstone Malcolm of Burnfoot.

Dates: 1775-1834.

Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12119
Scope and Contents

Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.

Dates: 1918-1936, undated.