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A young man wearing a mohawk Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in 1944 Girl with rattail mohawk, 1951 Ukrainian Cossack musician with chupryna or oseledets. The mohawk (also referred to as a mohican) is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the center.
Oseledets (Ukrainian: оселедець, IPA: [oseˈlɛdetsʲ]) or chub (чуб) is a traditional Ukrainian hairstyle that features a long lock of hair sprouting from the top or the front of an otherwise closely shaven head (similar to a modern Mohawk). Most commonly it is associated with the Ukrainian cossacks.
[citation needed] Spiked hair, teased hair, brightly colored hair, and shaved hair sections were popularized in the 1980s by the punk movement, [7] as were the Mohawk and its twisted variant, Liberty spikes. [9] The Mullet haircut existed in several different styles, all characterized by hair short on the sides and long in the back. [10]
6 Reverse Mohawk. 1 comment. 7 First Comeback. 1 comment. 8 Fair use rationale for Image:JohnnySlut.jpg. 1 comment. 9 Connection to the Mohawk Nation.
The term roach also applies to the traditional Mohawk hairstyle worn by some warriors of some southern plains tribes such as the Pawnee, Kiowa, and some Algonquian tribes, such as the Mohegan and Lenape. This is where their hair is shorn like a horse’s mane which was considered stylish in the 19th century.
Elly Jackson of La Roux wearing her hair in a quiff. The quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 1950s flattop, and sometimes a mohawk.It was born as a post-war reaction to the short and strict haircuts for men.
The tellum or reverse mullet (also referred to as a frullet [1]) is a hairstyle similar to the mullet. "Tellum" is "mullet" spelled backwards. While a mullet is short in the front and long in the back, the opposite is true for a tellum. The hair is longer in the front (usually straight cheek-chin length hair), and is short/buzzed in the back.
While reference #6 states that the bog body found at Clonycavan had "raised Mohawk-style hair," the Wikipedia article about the Clonycavan Man only says that his hair was "raised". In that article's discussion of his hair, the references speculate that his hairstyle may have been something akin to a Swabian Knot or a top knot.