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Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER XIII
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When a woman marries, I am told, she cuts her hair once.

When the hair is cut because it has grown too long and troublesome, they place it under a stone or hang it in a tree.

A shaman once cut his hair short to get new thoughts with the new hair, and while it was growing he kept his head tied up in a piece of cotton cloth to keep his thoughts from escaping.

When the people are very old, the hair turns gray; but they never grow bald.

Beards are rare, and if they appear the Indians pull them out.


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