... the Spanish American War of 1898. Navarro comments: Englands involvement in constant warfare during Victorias reign fueled the production of hair jewelry. The Indian Mutiny (1857) and Crimean War (in which England fought from 1854 to 1856), along with a series of endless minor skirmishes, took ... of memorial jewelry, often fashioned from a lock of the deceased soldiers hair. In the United States, the Civil War gave the same impetus to the art of hairwork, particularly memorial lockets and brooches. . . . memorializes not a heroic death in battle but an ignominious one steeped in trage...

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