Made of hundreds of white handkerchiefs, indicating the prescribed white cloth (or handkerchief) that had to be inserted during the "seven days" following menstruation to make sure there was no staining. In the back of the headboard are the texts from Leviticus indicating the ritual bath for the man (who was "defiled") but no mention of the bath for women. It is my contention that ancient women founded the traditional bath long before Leviticus, but were never credited for this. Instead, the concept of the bath was distorted by patriarchal rulings.