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Hair places

Cities, streets and sacred sites where hair styles were born, cut and offered. 8 places so far.

Style capitalBarber street or districtSacred siteSchool or museumCulture region
KindAllStyle capitalBarber street or districtSacred siteSchool or museumCulture region

South Asia

Culture region, IndiaMaduraiThe temple city whose jasmine, Madurai malli, is strung into gajras worn on plaits and buns across Tamil Nadu.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Culture region, EthiopiaJimmaThe old Oromo kingdom of south-west Ethiopia, whose women's braided styles were recorded by travellers from the 1870s.Culture region, MaliMopti and the Fula countryThe river port of Mali's inner Niger delta, a meeting place of the Fula herders whose braids inspired Fulani braids.Culture region, RwandaNyanza, RwandaThe old royal capital of Rwanda, where the King's Palace Museum recalls amasunzu, the crescent hair crests of men and young women.

Europe

Culture region, UkraineKhortytsiaThe Dnieper island of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, whose shaved heads and long forelock, the oseledets, are a symbol of Ukraine.Culture region, FranceVersaillesThe royal court of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette: the fontange, the periwig and the towering pouf.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Culture region, JamaicaKingstonJamaica's capital, where the Rastafari made locks a sign of faith and Bob Marley carried them around the world.Culture region, BrazilSalvadorThe heart of Afro-Brazilian culture, with the turbans of the baianas, afros, braids and the Beleza Negra of Ilê Aiyê.

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