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HAIR

Hair Styles

The men rolled the hair up on each ear, or sometimes made a roll on the top of the head or at the temples. Another style was to cut the hair on one side of the head within an inch or two of the roots, leaving it standing upright. Women let their hair grow long and coiled it into a long roll at the back, which they tied with thongs or strings of beads. Both sexes used bear grease and red dye to enhance the hair; the red came from puccoon roots, brought from the mountains.

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Just wondering about these descriptions on hair styles.

When this description says the men rolled their hair on top of their head is that like a bun?

Also when it says that they made a roll at the temples is that like princes Leigha rolls? or did they actually wined the hair around their ears?

On the ladies is the coiled long roll at the back of the head looking something like what Olive Oil wore in the Popeye cartoons?

Sorry to be funny about it, but it helps me to get a better idea of what our ancestors looked like.

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