STRANGE... STUFF...

[operafantomet]

We were visiting the Vatican museum last week, and in one of the first rooms in the Pinacotek I stumbled across some small narrative paintings by an unknown Tuscan artist. In two of the motifs I found that the women had some strange... stuff around their neck. It looks like a shawl with a ball in each end. The pattern and general shape of the shawl

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[peteyfrogboy]

My guess that it is a shawl, based on the second one in the basket on her head and similar shawls seen in this painting. What's inside, I haven't a clue. Perhaps water jugs?

[isabelladangelo]

Looks like a round tipped scarf to me. :-) I think the ends are flat and decorated like that possibly to show an excess use of yarn?