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🇰🇷 South KoreaGache
A heavy traditional Korean wig worn by high-status women and kisaeng.Wrapped · Any hair · 1788
🇰🇷 South KoreaBinyeo
A traditional Korean hairpin used to secure chignons and signal social status.Adorned
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreBuyao
A Chinese hairpin with dangling ornaments that sway when the wearer moves.Adorned · Any hair
🇻🇳 VietnamKhăn vấn
A traditional Vietnamese head wrap coiled tightly around the hair.Wrapped · Any hair · 1744
🇺🇸 United StatesTignon
A wrapped cloth headdress worn by Creole women in Louisiana.Wrapped · Any hair · 1786
🇨🇳 ChinaChinese hairpin
Traditional Chinese hair ornaments used to secure buns and signify status.Adorned · Any hair
🇮🇳 IndiaTonsure
A religious practice of cutting or shaving scalp hair to signal devotion, humility, or clerical status.Shaved · Any hair
WorldLong hair
Head hair grown to a considerable length, often past the shoulders.Styled · Any hair
🇯🇵 JapanChonmage
Traditional Japanese topknot worn by men, historically by samurai and now by sumo wrestlers.Updo · Straight hair · 1603
WorldBraid
Interlaced strands of hair used for style and social signalling.Braid · Any hair
🇪🇬 EgyptSidelock of youth
Ancient Egyptian braided side hair worn by royal children.Braid · Any hair
🇩🇪 GermanySuebian knot
A historical male bun worn by the Suebi and other Germanic tribes to signal status and identity.Updo · Straight hair
🇯🇵 JapanNihongami
Traditional Japanese hairstyles characterized by elaborate updos, side wings, and wax styling.Updo · Straight hair
🇰🇷 South KoreaSangtu
Traditional Korean topknot worn by married men.Updo · Any hair · 57
🇨🇳 ChinaLiangbatou
A tall Manchu headdress featuring two side-parted hair sections and elaborate ornamentation.Wrapped
🇫🇷 France and 1 moreHigh roll
A towering 18th-century hairstyle built with frames and pomatum.Styled · Any hair · 1760
🇬🇷 GreeceGreco-Roman hairstyles
Hair practices of ancient Greece and Rome, including long locks, short crops, and net head-dresses.Wrapped · Any hair
🇷🇺 RussiaRussian braid
A traditional long plait from Russia with historic marital meanings.Braid · Any hair
WorldHistorical Christian hairstyles
A survey of hair practices in Christianity from antiquity to the early modern period.Shaved · Any hair
EuropeRoman hairstyles
Ancient Roman hair fashions reflecting status and identityUpdo · Any hair
🇮🇱 IsraelJewish headcovering
A religious practice requiring married Orthodox Jewish women to cover their hair in public.Wrapped · Any hair
🇪🇬 Egypt and 4 moreWig
Artificial head covering made from human, animal or synthetic hair.Wrapped · Any hair
🇳🇦 Namibia and 1 moreEembuvi
Traditional long braided headdress of Mbalantu women in Namibia.Braid · Straight hair
🇰🇷 South KoreaJjok
A traditional Korean bun for married women in the Joseon era.Updo · Any hair · 1724
WorldBraids
A hairstyle formed by interlacing three or more strands of hair.Braid · Any hair
🇯🇵 JapanNihongami
Traditional Japanese hairstyles characterized by upswept buns and side wings.Updo · Straight hair · 1603
🇲🇱 Mali and 1 moreGoffa
Traditional braided style with metal adornments for married women in Mali and Niger.Braid · Any hair
🇬🇭 GhanaDensinkran
Short Ashanti mourning cut for royal womenCut · Any hair
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Long hair: Adam Jones Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Binyeo: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tonsure: Pietro Perugino, Public domain, source
- Tignon: François Fleischbein, Public domain, source
- Sidelock of youth: Unknown artist, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Braid: Ciell, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gache: KIYOUNG KIM, CC BY 2.0, source
- Khăn vấn: André Salles, Public domain, source
- Buyao: anonymous, Public domain, source
- Jewish headcovering: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Suebian knot: Bullenwächter, CC BY 3.0, source
- Wig: David Ring, CC0, source
- Nihongami: 都新聞社 Miyako Shinbun, Public domain, source
- Sangtu: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Liangbatou: Daderot, Public domain, source
- High roll: Joseph Ducreux, Public domain, source
- Russian braid: Philip Budkin, Public domain, source
- Greco-Roman hairstyles: ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chinese hairpin: Augusthaiho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Roman hairstyles: Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2004-06-02 14:47:52, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chonmage: not listed, Public domain, source
- Braids: Unknown author, Public domain, source