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Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair
Hopi woman dressing hair

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View of a Hopi woman, seated on a rock, combing the hair of a man who is sitting on the ground, with a woman leaning against a wall behind them. According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885), the 'brush-like comb used combines two articles in one. A bunch of long round-bladed grass is selected, and around the butt of it, a short distance from the end, a string is tightly wrapped. The butt-end is utilized as a comb, while the long end is used as a broom, and sometimes as a strainer. For the latter use, the brush end is flattened by the hand and thumb. This is held over a bowl, and the goats milk poured through it. The picture shows some of the details of hair-dressing among the [Hopi].'

Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
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Date 1879

Hopi woman dressing hair

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