A Dinka Dandy
The portrait represents what might be styled a Dinka dandy, distinguished for unusually long hair. By continual combing and stroking with hair-pins, the hair of the negro loses much of its close curliness. Such was the case here: the hair, six inches long, was trained up into points like tongues of flame, and these, standing stiffly up all round his head, gave the man a fiendish look, which was still further increased by its being dyed a foxy red. This tint is the result of continual washing with cow-urine; a similar effect can be produced by the application for a fortnight of a mixture of dung and ashes.
Hair fashions 1834 England
Hair fashions 1834 England
Hairstyles for 1836
Hairstyles for 1836
hair dressing which were in vogue in 1832
hair styles which were in vogue in 1832
different styles of hair-dressing fashionable in 1830-31
different styles of hair-dressing fashionable in 1830-31
different modes of dressing the hair.in 1835
different modes of dressing the hair.in 1835
Hairstyles for 1837
Hairstyles for 1837
bonnets, a turban, a cap, and various modes of dressing the hair. 1833
bonnets, a turban, a cap, and various modes of dressing the hair. 1833