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SRB1965
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| | Subject: Zulu hairstyles Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:56 pm | |
| Hi,
Somewhere, I have read that unmarried Zulu warriors had a fad in the 1870s to shape their hair into weird styles and plaster it with red clay.
I have found engraving of the hairstyles but am unable to find the reference to the red clay/ochre colour.
Has anyone got any references to hand?
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| | | | Frank Allewell
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| | Subject: Re: Zulu hairstyles Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:02 am | |
| Hi Sime
Ive just finished watching the new Shaka series on TV and the startling thing about it was the variety of intricate shaped hair styles. Pretty much a culture shock.
Cheers |
| | | | SRB1965
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| | Subject: Re: Zulu hairstyles Thu Sep 14, 2023 11:16 am | |
| Hiya Frank
How's things?
I've seen a number of engravings of Zulu hairstyles from the time of the AZW - particularly (exclusively?) the younger warriors.
Apparently a lot of modern ladies 'do's' are derived from historical African styles - bantu braids bring one.
Being folliculy challenged, its not something I know much about.
As part if a modelling project I painted some figures (with strange coifuers) reddish brown but I can't find the source now - there would have definitely have been a reference to it in one of my books (I'm pretty strict about accuracy)....nothing to worry about, just idle musings.
Have you got anymore books planned?
Cheers
Sime |
| | | | Frank Allewell
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| | Subject: Re: Zulu hairstyles Thu Sep 14, 2023 11:28 am | |
| Hi Sime
Yes Im working on one at present, time to publish some old original documents Ive been hoarding.
I have no idea when it will be done, sometimes life gets in the way.
Cheers |
| | | | Mr M. Cooper
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| | Subject: Re: Zulu hairstyles Fri Sep 15, 2023 3:51 pm | |
| The old style close cropped hair style that most raw recruits got, we used to call it a short back n bald. Most depictions of zulu hair do's I have seen, nearly always appear to show it in a ring around the top of the head, and it does appear to be plastered down with some sort of clay. Maybe the zulus invented a sort of super glue and did not realise it at the time.  |
| | | | Frank Allewell
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