Cone-shaped headdress made of red velvet covered with gold-thread embroidery on a cardboard base, complete with the strap used to fasten it. Algeria, 19th century. Height: 15 cm (Signs of wear and missing parts.) This headdress was worn as a distinctive symbol by Jewish women in Algeria. General bibliography: - Les Juifs d'Algérie. Images et textes. Ed du Scribe, Paris, 1987. - Leyla Belkaïd, Algéroises. History of a Mediterranean Costume. Edisud, Aix-en-Provence, 1998. A very similar headdress is in the collection of the mahJ, Paris, under inventory number: Inv. 91.12.023. Keywords: Judaica, Jew, Jewish, Hebrew, rabbis, Torah, Hebrew, Hebraica, Judaism, synagogue, Zionism, Passover, Haggadah, Passover, menorah, Hanukkah, Torah, Juden, Israelite, Israel, antisemitism, Dreyfus, Megillah, Sephardic, ketubah