"head rag" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 6, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 86",
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          "text": "1941, Sallie Carder (interviewee) in Federal Writers’ Project, Slave Narratives, Volume 13, Oklahoma Narratives, p. 27,\nDuring my wedding I wore a blue calico dress, a man's shirt tail as a head rag, and a pair of brogan shoes."
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          "text": "1981, Toni Morrison, interview with Charles Ruas in Danille Taylor-Guthrie (ed.), Conversations with Toni Morrison, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, p. 114,\n[…] black women slaves in this country were not, by and large, domestics in the house, with the headrag. They worked out in the fields […]"
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