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Hair plays an important a role in making a statement about individuals or members of a particular ethnic or social group, with a language and meaning.
And many people do not realise that the modern-day hairstyles owe a lot to the ancestors of the indigenous people of the world.
Through the ages, hair has been an indicator or many things, including social status. From the indigenous people of Asia to Africa, wealth and rank, as well as age and marital status were denoted by the style and sometimes even the length of hair. In ancient Egypt, the wearing of wigs was a show of power – using other people’s hair to wear depicted an ability to command respect and acknowledgement of status. The less hair someone had, the more subservience was indicated. Similarly in Norse and Viking cultures, short hair was associated with servitude and the lower classes, whereas long hair, elaborately braided, denoted higher social standing.
Married women were and still are in some cultures, afforded the privilege of certain hairstyles, where young, unmarried girls’ hair is worn more naturally. As a woman moves through the different stages of life, hair is, for some indigenous people, an indicator of girlhood, adolescence, marriageability, fertility and maturity. For the Geishas of Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries, the way hair was styled denoted the journey from apprentice to professional geisha, going through a series of five different styles throughout training.
For some, hair also has a spiritual significance. The Miao women of ancient China’s so called ‘long horn’ hairstyle paid homage to the ancestors by incorporating the hair, and the style was a symbolism of reverence for owned cattle. The Maori people of New Zealand use items from the natural world such as feathers, leaves and flowers to deck the hair, but during periods of mourning and grief the hair was left unkempt. During pregnancy the women also refrain from cutting hair in order to ensure the unborn child receives all of the mother’s strength and energy.
Hair has also been a part of political protest and rebellion. The mowhawk of the Native American Iroquois was worn by young warriors and was considered disrespectful for anyone else to wear the same hairstyle but in modern day, the mowhawk, or Mohican, became a symbol of social non-conformity by the punk rock subculture.
Cornrows date back as far as 3000 BCE amongst numerous indigenous people of Africa but more recently this has become a tool in the fight by Africans against slavery in the Americas. The width and formation of the cornrows were a means of communicating escape intentions and routes and a safe way for slaves to conceal plans from colonial owners.
Today, strong cultural traditions are retained by many indigenous people of the world, including in the way hair is worn, as traditions have been passed down. Hair styles are more than a form of self-expression; hair has a deeper and more meaningful significance that should not be lost on generations to come.
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