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Until I was about nine years old, my hair was cut short, with a tuft on either side of my head, like the horns of an owl. Turtle used to cut my hair. She used a big, steel knife. In old times, I have heard, a thin blade of flint was 60used. I did not like Turtle’s hair cutting a bit, because she pulled.

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Author: Waheenee--An Indian Girl's Story
By Waheenee
as told to Gilbert Livingstone Wilson
Illustrator: Frederick N. Wilson
Published in 1921
Available from gutenberg.org
Posted on: Monday 10 January 2022
Dimensions: 475*501
Tags: Century:19th, Girls, Hairstyles, Indigenous, Place:America
Albums: Places / America / United States / Indigenous People
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