Word: bandanas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...converted to the mission-style dress from neck to knee. By signs, a New York sergeant conveyed to a Makin girl that he wanted a grass skirt for a souvenir. Quickly she whipped hers off, politely offered it. The red-faced soldier hastily gave the gift-giver a large bandana handkerchief. Graciously she accepted, deftly wrapped it around her head...
...Rawlings to Cross Creek. "She came walking toward me in the grove one bright sunny December day. . . . She walked like a very young woman and walks so to this day. She is getting on to seventy. . . . She was dressed neatly in calico with a handkerchief bound around her head, bandana fashion. She was a rich smooth brown. . . . She said: 'I come to pay my respecks. I be's Martha. Martha Mickens. I wants to welcome you. Me and my man, Old Will, was the first hands on this place. . . . It's home...