アンダーグラウンドのインスタグラム(resul80k2) - 9月29日 20時24分

1: What’s with the haircut

The “#Mohawk” almost became a #punk parody thanks to cheap TV comedy and ill informed main stream media. The early years of punk were about the challenge to the music hierarchy and less about the looks. By the early #80’s the #punkmovement had been taken over by a new crowd that were as much about the looks than the music and that’s when the mohawk went punk.
Trying to strip back to the origins of the iconic strip of hair is challenging. No thanks to ignorance and misinformation about #NativeAmerican culture and the parodying of punk that has just become a bit mixed up. The hairstyle itself has always been popular with warriors - The hair was like some kind of plumage whether it on warriors for ancient Libya, Cossacks or Mongolians. No doubt the haircut made the warriors look fearsome enough . Watch one episode of Planet Earth and you’ll know that an upright line of hair on end in nature doesn’t suggest you make nice, but you make fast.

The word itself? ‘Mohawk’-it derives from the #Iroquois tribe of the same name- though the style itself is more comparable to the hair of the #Pawnee people. This inaccuracy- thanks to the fantasy of film makers- also stretches to the false notion that the whole tribe would wear the style. In truth- the style was only adopted for warriors and hair would only be removed when approaching war. At a time when the scalps of the tribe were prized by settlers, the #warriors would shave intricate designs into their hair to taunt the bounty hunters and deflect attention from the women and children. So what came next? Well it’s on to 1942 and seems like #DartmouthCollege student #BillAbrahms decided on a Mohawk haircut. At the time, the school’s mascot was the ‘Dartmouth Indian’- and young Bill wanted to know what a Mohawk felt like during the winter months. The appalling caption to narrate the conclusion? ‘He thinks he now discovered instead why the old boy [mascot] is now extinct.’ Cultural misappropriation and insensitivity was alive and kicking alright.
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