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Black silk bonnet, smooth rounded crown with 12 pleats formed along base of brim; crown lined with stuff buckram; lower crown caught with bow and edged with gathered ruffle; ruffle pleated along hem line and lined with black netting, 3 pleated folds drawn across base of brim; cloth stretched taut over wire frame defining broad funnel-shaped brim; brim lined with cream silk; 2 3/8" stiff black silk ribbon sewn to curved tips of brim; ribbon frayed at fold lines; black netting torn from gathered seam; brown stains throughout lining of crown and brim; corners of brim especially worn and frayed; 1 small scratched and worn area on black silk of brim; - Worn by Mary Jessup Macy, great-grandmother of donor. She was wife of Benedict Macy (1819-1910), Noblesville area.</div>
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<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/5a2bb8b42318b6fd9f4c9a47621dfd34">5a2bb8b42318b6fd9f4c9a47621dfd34</a></li>
<li>Conner Prairie identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/CPClothing/id/953">http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/CPClothing/id/953</a></li></ul></span>