So after my article on wearing your natural hair, I started wondering if it was a problem only with people of African descent; as I always do I  looked back in history to look for other identity crises in the past and this is what I found.

COIFFURE AND HAT COMBINED


Not content with dressing their own hair in artistic style, these Nosu girls have supplemented it with wool. After being dyed vast quantities are mixed with their own strands and the whole fastened with a band.

 

SAINTLINESS WITH SNAKE-LIKE HALO


This fakir's chief concern is his hair which, with the addition of quantities of goat's hair, he twists into long ropes. Coiled round his head, as shown above, these form a kind of sun-resisting turban

ORIENTALISM IN THE STREETS OF BULGARIA


The vanity of youth is apparent in the headdress of young Bulgarian women and those who possess fine heads of hair, by no means an unusual thing among the peasants, delight in long plaits and coin adornments