Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-26 | Page 4 | Grave of Young Danish Girl Opens Fashion Mystery

Grave of Young Danish Girl Opens Fas Fashion ion Mystery Found young Found young girls girl's body in an oak coffin This discovery in Denmark has las opened l up a scientific mystery Archeologists are puzzled not to account account account ac ac- ac- ac count for lor the girls girl's death but to ac account account account ac- ac count for her unusual costume When the coffin was vas opened it showed a girl of the bronze age with fair Calr bobbed hair and arid a short skirt skirL That was as surprising to the archeologists archeologists archeologists arche- arche as s if they had opened an American grave of 1776 and found a colonial maid with bobbed hair and kneel knee length dress T The e. e usual bronze age styles are well known from previous ous tomb discoveries Women and girls in northern Europe centuries before Christ ordinarily wore sedate long dresses and long hair neatly caught in a net neL France the land of fashion Is Ls approprIately appropriately ap ap- ap- ap eno enough gh trying to solve th the bronze age fashion puzzle In the scientific scientific sd- sd journal M.a. M M. R. R Lantier suggests that the short skirt skir may have been a religious costume I or else a house dress dreS When a young girl made offerings offering to the gods in ancient Denmark sh she may have worn this special costume and if U a young priestess died sh she perhaps had the privilege pf of being burled in her official dress M. M Lantier's Lantier's Lantier's Lan Lan- i tiers tier's reason for this theory is that tha that votive figures have b been n found wearing wearing wearing wear wear- ing s somewhat similar costumes The girls girl's costume was of ot brown and bronze Her fair short hair was I bound with a fillet illet of wool A short shor jacket of brown wool reached to th the hips Her knee length skirt was madof made mad I of ot intertwined twisted strings lika like lik a fringe held in place at the bottom by a lacing A tasseled belt of ot woo wool was fastened at her waist A bronze bronz earring was in her left ear and bronze bronz bracelets at her wrists At the head of the thc body was a box made of bark bar containing the thc cremated remains o oa of at ofa ata a child about 7 or 8 years old