Sally Dart's Hair Locks Collection with Hand-written Verse, c. 1840s, in Period Gold Gessoed Framr (Copy) estates with each letter the first

with each letter the first letter in a German phrase

and with beads of various sizes inside

but altogether in good shape

The roots are in the colonial era--in some regards representing the contrast between “good” and "evil" and the evangelization of the "devil" via Christianity--but with the devil as personified in some festivals embodying resistance against the oppression of the colonizers

Sally Dart's Hair Locks Collection with Hand-written Verse, c. 1840s, in Period Gold Gessoed Framr (Copy) estates with each letter the firstLovely. Likely this was one page from a larger hair album, but perfect as found, protected in this period frame, with each of the hair locks wreaths labeled and secured with a ribbon, and a handwritten verse by Sally Dart tying it all together. My little mind does not expand Nor recognize another land Since I am here & your [sic] are there I send my little lock of hair. With the name Eliza J. Canada labeling the lock at top seeming just right in