TEWWG pg 88

Text: "She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.... before she slept that night she burnt up everyone of her head-rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waste.

As quote on the first page says woman forget what they want to so Janie is doing so in this line. She is taking the rags that kept her hair tied up just like Joe kept her and this is her way of forgetting it.