6 Truths to understand the Sacred Meaning of Hair For Native Americans.

Only unmarried young women wore this complex hairstyle. Another unique tribal hairstyle was the board or bonnet hair popular among Seminole women in the 1800’s.

Seminole women made their hair into this disk shape by fanning it over a tilted cardboard frame (which then stayed in place under their hair.)

Traditionally, most Seminole women wore their hair on top of their heads like other southeastern Indian tribes, and today the black board style is almost never worn.

However, it can still be seen on Seminole palmetto dolls, which are usually made with this distinctively Seminole hairstyle.

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4- Men’s Hairstyles: The most common Native American men’s hairstyles were flowing hairstyles, long braids, or shaved heads. But there were many different versions of each of these basic hairstyles. Hair held great symbolic importance for men in many Native American tribes, especially in Western tribes like the Lakota and Blackfoot.